> No claims of magic, but crypto is undeniably well-suited for and utilized by criminals.
All right, but not all crypto is used or crime, in fact most of this volume is used for speculation, hoarding and to circumvent capital controls (getting one's dough out of China).
The thing is that most of it is traceable. Me and my colleagues have witnessed the CEO of a company in a neighbouring office being arrested and extradited to the US on charges of money laudring and fraud using crypto assets (BTC and ETH specifically). So the arrest/indictment of these two doesn't come as a surprise, it was bound to happen as soon as they got caught or stepped out of Russia.
No claims of magic, but crypto is undeniably well-suited for and utilized by criminals.
>why have the US authorities traced crypto to the second individual
BTC alone did $45B in transaction volume over the last 24 hours. That's a pace of $16.4T over a year.
These two arrests, while encouraging, are nothing in comparison.