It's always heuristics because you're not going to actually catch these guys. Any spook with an above-room-temperature IQ will tell you that that would be a bad move, because the only thing that will happen is that they'll get their kickbacks from someone else.

Precisely my concern. I have zero clue... Without verifying (= I ain't spending time reading their shit-ass paper), I suppose they make some wishy-washy chainanalysis heuristic and pretend it works

denlillaapan

If you can't attribute the "new-wallet creation", then how do you know these contain stolen world bank aid?

Politics_And_Law

econ

Bitcoin is Good for Siphoning Off Aid Money (FT, Robin Wigglesworth)

TL;DR ***If you can't attribute the "new-wallet creation", then how do you know these contain stolen world bank aid?***