http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/11/13/sanitizing-bitcoin-coin-validation/
"Now the unlikely trio of two technologists and a Wharton grad is
launching Coin Validation,
a due diligence service for Bitcoin businesses that they hope will
help set regulators’ minds at ease.
It’s a tracking system for Bitcoin ownership that would
theoretically weed out ‘bad actors’ – like the Dread Pirate Roberts
– from the legitimate Bitcoin business world"
"But what about Bitcoin laundering services and wallets
designed specifically to make observation and tracking challenging?
“The average user is not sophisticated enough to launder Bitcoin,”
says Guo"