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by jcburnham 1614 days ago
> tracking down the entity that is paying cash

Cash is what the illegal drug trade runs on, and governments are generally very bad at preventing that.

One interesting data-point about Argentina is that currently about 8% of all physical US dollar bills (About $130 billion) are in Argentina (https://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2021/06/28/a-cryp...).