It's inconvenient to move more than $10,000 at once.

There are good reasons to own a three necked flask other than making cocaine (although if you are an amateur chemist and actually buy one with bitcoin I'd be surprised if you didn't get in trouble.)

There's gray stuff like porn, although I don't necessarily support that one.

> It's inconvenient to move more than $10,000 at once.

I realize that this is subjective, and everyone's got their own acceptable risk levels, but I would feel very, very paranoid about trying to move $10k via cryptocurrency. This whole thread's about the Wild Wild West, and trying to move $10,000 in cryptocurrency is like tossing some gold bricks in your bag and taking a hike, instead of paying Western Union to ship it - insured - via one of their secured wagons.

(I'm also honestly not sure how convenient it is to convert $10k to bitcoin, and then convert it back. How long does it take for it to make it through the exchanges?)

> although if you are an amateur chemist and actually buy one with bitcoin I'd be surprised if you didn't get in trouble

And that's the whole point I was making elsewhere in this thread. Paying for something with Bitcoin doesn't magically make it legal.