Both Ross, and Roux had all the means to play filthy rich, they just elected not to. In other words both were very bad at doing a criminal enterprise. I will t

Both Ross, and Roux had all the means to play filthy rich, they just elected not to. In other words both were very bad at doing a criminal enterprise. I will though second you on this point: > I used to view things exactly like you did. I was a big Bitcoin user as well. I read Treasury's War and it sickened me. AML is indeed a parallel quasi-judicial system except without the good bits of the actual judicial system, and poses many civil liberties concerns. AMLKYC is the free world's equivalent of all what STASI wanted to become. But just like the original, STASI got largely useless for its nominal purpose the bigger, and more powerful it became. STASI started to finding people to prosecute for the sake of finding people to prosecute, and keep ever expanding need to grow its manpower, and political clout. At some point, they got to see a large double digit of DDR population as potential spies, and terrorists, and it was then when the system started to break down. STASI agents were running after people for they suspected of revolt for storing too many food items, while mass agitators were kind of overlooked for their "banality." That few month window was what allowed for DDR protest movement to materialise seemingly overnight.