hm, so first the new mining operations run the entire fabrication line, so they have factories in Shenzhen or Scandinavia and create the mining hardware and sta

hm, so first the new mining operations run the entire fabrication line, so they have factories in Shenzhen or Scandinavia and create the mining hardware and start mining. if you have the whole production line you can pay for costs in cash or straight from the illicit source to people without ever passing through a reportable system secondly, when you do buy mining hardware or buy hashrate (cloud mining), most manufacturers and service providers ONLY take bitcoin, so if the money was dirty it still never passed through a reportable system. when you pay for invoices with cryptocurrency there is no billing address or any other information about the buyer. if you funds came from a botnet, a hack or even drugs but stayed in the system, there is no necessity to link your identity to anyone. you can ship your hardware to any address, or straight to a data center, and even if you think that will reveal your identity even the mining proceeds can go to any random address recipient and this is all new money. instead of trying to reveal the flaws, try imagining it as if you had five million dollars in bitcoin to launder and i2p/TOR and see how you could remain anonymous without messing up your OPSEC on either the blockchain or from your other activities.