Hypocrisy and The Consequences of Monkey Laundering
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In 2021, cybercriminals laundered billions through the blockchain: Mining pools, high-risk exchanges, and mixers also saw substantial increases in value received from illicit addresses, the report said. Mixers typically combine potentially identifiable or tainted cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to conceal the trail to the fund's original source.
This is more specifically part of the wider a16z and VC push against the media daring to report on them. BAYC is working on becoming an a16z creature.
I outlined a bit of this push here: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/08/08/balaji-srinivasans-plan-to-save-journalism
(you may read that and think it's quite possibly the stupidest idea ever conceived for journalism)