North Korean hackers stole a record $1.7B of crypto last year
"mixers—large digital pools where crypto owners can deposit funds to obscure their origins."I have a quibble with articles about cryptocurrency fraud. They always get around to mixers and then they define it as if it were some relatively legitimate thing, like an odd bank. "large digital pools", "deposit funds". You have to get to the last phrase ("obscure their origins") to understand what mixers really are.A proposed alternate definition: "mixers - international money laundering services where illegally obtained cryptocurrency can be mixed with other fraud proceeds making it harder for the legal system to trace".(The definition I really would like: "mixers - services that look to hide your funds but are actually operated by intelligence agencies to track illegal activity". I imagine at least one mixer is a honeypot of sorts.)