They&#x27;re difficult to stop because they kill people who try to investigate and arrest their members. Creating a law requiring them to report their financial activity will not stop them. They sell tons of cocaine, despite cocaine being illegal. They will ignore financial disclosure laws just as they ignore laws prohibiting them from operating large scale drug and murder operations.<p>Anonymous digital currency like bitcoin could be used to reward informants without requiring them to physically meet anyone or reveal their identity, which is extremely valuable when cartels have countless people inside law enforcement agencies.<p>&gt;I&#x27;m out to eliminate the tyranny of the wealthy: they manipulate our politics and buy their way out of justice.<p>Destroying money (money only works when it affords its user with privacy) to stop abuse by the economically powerful is cutting off your nose to spite your face. Money does far more good than bad. The solution to abuse by the wealthy is to fix the political system, so that money cannot buy political influence, not eliminate wealth and privacy.