$3.6B Bitcoin seizure shows how hard it is to launder cryptocurrency

Anonymous money has existed for thousands of years in the form of coins and pieces of paper. Existing laws work for money laundering in cryptocurrency just as well as cash. The problem is not moving money, but being able to spend it. Basic methods against structuring, round-tripping, gambling, black salaries, transaction laundering, work against cryptocurrency just as well.

Just because it's digital and uses cryptography does not change anything fundamentally. If you want to spend any significant amount you need to show yourself. Business must show their crypto assets and transactions in accounting. Financial forensics needs to change very little.

What is called "mixing" in crypto is just form of structuring.

Somehow the launderers never think of moving to 3rd world countries.