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€ Cycling through other currencies would then be treated like any other form of money laundering
Then Wall-Street traders would be the first to go to jail. Soros made his fortune betting against the british pound.

This seems like a complete non-sequitur. What has soros’s bet got to do with money laundering?

What has soros’s bet got to do with money laundering?

Did you read (and understand) the original comment ? It read:

Cycling through other currencies* would then be treated like any other form of money laundering

Soros cycled through currencies while at war with the BoE, applying OP comment, it would then have to be treated as money laundering if applied to fiat currencies.

it would then have to be treated as money laundering if applied to fiat currencies.

Sure but where is anyone talking about applying this to fiat currencies?

This seems like a red herring.

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