Coinbase has KYC ("Know your customer") policies explicitly to comply with anti-money laundering. https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/managing-my-account/upd

Coinbase has KYC ("Know your customer") policies explicitly to comply with anti-money laundering. https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/managing-my-account/update-my-account/identity-verification-faq https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/managing-my-account/up... Edit: besides that, the point of 'laundering' money is basically to get it into a form where it is officially yours, in the light, with taxes paid. The NFT is a conceivably 'legitimate' transfer of value. I made a thing and sold it for money, and declared and paid tax on the capital gain - boom, legitimate.