🚨HOW CRYPTO LAUNDERING ACTUALLY WORKS IN 2026. 🚨
🚨HOW CRYPTO LAUNDERING ACTUALLY WORKS IN 2026. 🚨
There’s a lazy myth that mixers make funds untraceable. At scale, that’s false.
For groups like Lazarus Group, mixers are a liability. The real game is chain hopping.
- Don’t hold censorable assets
ETH and stablecoins are bad long-term storage. USDT and USDC can be frozen by issuers. Ethereum can be censored at the validator level. Bitcoin remains the only true bearer asset.
- Bridges are the danger zone
Moving size from EVM chains to BTC is risky. Most “decentralized” bridges are just multisigs. Push $10M through one and the team has time and incentive to freeze it.
- Use protocols, not operators
That’s why advanced actors migrated to THORChain. No custody. No approvals. The bridge itself becomes a permissionless conversion layer into native BTC.
- Exit off-chain, at a cost
Once in Bitcoin, the on-chain trail fades. Dirty BTC gets sold via opaque OTC desks, often in China or SE Asia. Inventory clears at a 15–20% discount. That spread is the price of risk.