I imagine in a year or three he'll settle down and live like a king in Patagonia :)
Regarding the money exfiltration, from what I recall, there are several money laundering "consultants" active on SR, there was a relatively recent interview[1] with someone who goes by StExo there. As with any illegal market, there are parties of varying levels of sophistication, from the guy who sells $100/week of weed to large organised groups with tens of members, drop houses, front companies, etc.
The (comparatively simple) problem faced by SR is converting BTC to hard currency. The harder part that both large SR vendors and physical drug traffickers have to contend with is obscuring the source and getting it onto the books as legitimate income they can pay tax on and pay themselves wages/dividends/whatever with.
But that isn't a new problem, and organised crime has clearly been doing it at scale for a while, and I can quite imagine professionals in the financial and business sectors who specialise in getting away with it.
Regarding the money exfiltration, from what I recall, there are several money laundering "consultants" active on SR, there was a relatively recent interview[1] with someone who goes by StExo there. As with any illegal market, there are parties of varying levels of sophistication, from the guy who sells $100/week of weed to large organised groups with tens of members, drop houses, front companies, etc.
The (comparatively simple) problem faced by SR is converting BTC to hard currency. The harder part that both large SR vendors and physical drug traffickers have to contend with is obscuring the source and getting it onto the books as legitimate income they can pay tax on and pay themselves wages/dividends/whatever with.
But that isn't a new problem, and organised crime has clearly been doing it at scale for a while, and I can quite imagine professionals in the financial and business sectors who specialise in getting away with it.
[1] http://weirderweb.com/tag/stexo/