At the risk of belaboring the obvious: 1. Harder to reverse the transfer 2. Harder to trace the transfer to a prosecutable human identity That said, the arti

At the risk of belaboring the obvious: 1. Harder to reverse the transfer 2. Harder to trace the transfer to a prosecutable human identity That said, the article mentions at least one guardrail in the crypto-ecosystem: > But when the thieves tried to move $100,000 worth of cryptocurrency out of his account, Coinbase sent an email stating that the account had been locked, and that he would have to submit additional verification documents before he could do anything with it.