Ben McKenzie

Sure, right?

You can imagine you're trying to send money to a country under sanctions that you don't believe in, and so you're trying to work around it.

Sure, but, I mean, let's be adults.

How are they actually using it?

They're using it for crime, and the amount of crime is staggering.

There's a crypto company that did an analysis study last year

And found that something like $150 billion of illicit activity is financed via cryptocurrency.

$150 billion in a year.

And that's from a crypto company.

Yeah.

So it might be on the low end.

You know what I mean?

So we're talking about like just a staggering amount of crime.

And some of the worst people in the world, you know, Jeffrey Epstein, Love Crypto.

You know, it's like Russian oligarchs selling sanctioned oil to the Chinese in exchange for drones that they're going to send to Ukraine.

And it's all done via cryptocurrency.

You know, it's like all of the terrible stuff.

And so that's really, you know, like that's my hobby horse.

That's the thing I'm beating on is like, what are we doing?

What good is this doing?