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Theft doesn’t scale that very well. You try laundering $10 million by selling stolen goods at the pub. It’ll take you a while, and I can guarantee that the police are gonna notice.

Even then you’re just turning your goods into cash. Which is still difficult to spend when buying high value assets like property. At some point if you’re a criminal that wants to spend their cash, and live in a developed country you need to turn your crypto into clean fiat in a bank account, or prove the crypto didn’t come from illicit sources.




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