[TwelveNights]

One way I've seen discussed on HN is by sending varying amounts to N different accounts, where some are owned by you / affiliates and others are not. In a sense, paying for obfuscation of which accounts are actually owned by you.

[briffle]

Until one of those people buys a Tesla with bitcoin (yeah, I know they just stopped doing that) from a wallet that can be traced to that payment, and then its just the authorities following up the chain.

People like to seem like all these crypto's are totally anonymous, but every transaction ends up in some sort of public blockchain. So unless you have air-tight OPSEC and people that will never talk, no matter what kind of jail time they are facing, its always going to be traceable with enough interest.