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Without crypto, would it be impossible to extract cash from a company? What is the current mechanism used to get funds that the FBI can’t track down? Wire the money to a jurisdiction mostly out of our sphere of influence.


Wire transfers themselves are straightforward to track, due to something called SWIFT. That’s one reason “money laundering” is a thing: it exists to obfuscate the trail of the money being traced.


More difficult, but feasible.

One way is to demand that a smaller amount of money be wired to 1,000 accounts throughout the world.

You — the bad guy - own merely one of them.

Difficult to trace them all before you empty your particular account.


But then the amount would be 1/1000 and it wouldn’t be financially lucrative enough




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