I don't fully believe this, but as a steelman:
they first fully exhaust the "by the book" options, and once they got banned they can go to the "gray area" options.
Otherwise, if they go straight to tor, coinjoins, etc, it makes it easier for their adversaries to label them as shady
gandlaf21
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2026-08-31 11:55:49 UTC
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