It was capitalizing a supply chain that had a lot of criminal activity in it, but still the value had to come from exchange with dollars. I guess there is a que

It was capitalizing a supply chain that had a lot of criminal activity in it, but still the value had to come from exchange with dollars. I guess there is a question of how many people and how much of the economy you sweep up in the term 'criminal', because, as I understand, the vast majority of money that flows into criminal enterprise comes from illegal drug users with legal source income. At this point though, we made billionaires out of those criminals because ordinary 100% lawful citizens around the world fear the financial mismanagement, corruption, and/or authoritarianism of their own governments, depending on where they live. That's sad. Terrible outcome really.