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by bob1029 2122 days ago
Attempting to obfuscate the origins and destinations of funds involved in criminal conspiracies by using cryptocurrencies is quite a terrible life choice.

Running a literal laundromat for purposes of laundering money is still a far more viable criminal enterprise than anything involving technology.

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Can't extort business owners with ransomware running a laundromat!
"To regain access to your files, insert exactly 502,20 USD in laundromat 4 at the self-service laundry on the corner of 5th and Union."
It's a little on the nose, but I would absolutely watch a TV series based on this concept.
I suspect most of these ransomware operators have the support of some government which turns a blind eye in return for a cut. There's not much value in tracking the BTC payments back to the same damn Russian bank who never seems to have any "evidence of such activities".