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Any basic search within the Bitcoin community and you'll find many many guides and services for Bitcoin money laundering: https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptocoinMixing/ https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=436467.0;all https://darknetmarkets.org/a-simple-guide-to-safely-and-effe... https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/2699/is-there-a... Vitalik Buterin himself has attempted a money laundering feature into the Ethereum Virtual Machine codebase: https://github.com/ethereum/serpent/blob/develop/examples/ec... Another famous way to launder money as described in this post from a moderator on BitcoinTalk dated August 22, 2013, 02:32:31 AM [ https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279249.0 ] , is to give Bitcoin to a mining pool in return for renting their hashpower, in return for freshly minted coins: https://www.nicehash.com/buy

Not explicitly. Currently, it's the most widest used language for interacting with the VM, but it's not the end development goal. I don't think the entire thing hinges on Solidity, though it's probably the most immediately accessible language. The hype driving the price up seems a bit premature, though. There are a couple of other languages in development that might improve the ecosystem: * Vyper https://github.com/ethereum/vyper * Serpent https://github.com/ethereum/serpent

Its a bit like asking "why should I use javascript instead of php". Different computer languages are better for different things, like different blockchains are better for different things. Ethereum comes with a built in state tracking machine and smart contracting language. It already has 98% of the protocol built... there's no need to start from 0 for blockstack. If the DNS/PKIs were on Ethereum, anyone could build applications that interact with it without altering the fundamental protocol. For example, a developer could build a decentralized auction or escrow system for domain names. They could do that without having to alter/adjust the existing blockstack protocol. Here is namecoin in 8 lines of serpent https://github.com/ethereum/serpent/blob/master/examples/nam...