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The issue is that a tumbler doesn't make the dirty money go away, quite the opposite; it gives a bunch of other people little bits of dirty money. If I were a n
by Gaelan 5y ago
The issue is that a tumbler doesn't make the dirty money go away, quite the opposite; it gives a bunch of other people little bits of dirty money. If I were a non-criminal, or even a smaller-time criminal, it wouldn't be in my best interests to use a tumbler that might give me this dirty money.
- ineedasername 5y agoIt doesn't matter if they're all criminals using the mixer-- we want to track these particular ransomware hackers, and that's made extremely difficult when all we see is their lump sum enter the mixer with countless other transactions, and countless disaggregated transactions come out the other end no longer tied to the hackers, making it much harder to track down the people that brought down most of the East Coast's pipeline infrastructure. Anything like that stunt is pretty difficult to accomplish using traditional banking institutions when we know where the money is going and can track it each step of the way, or just freeze it.