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The bribe is so that you are now a party to the crime and less likely to try and turn them in after the fact. The threats to your life and the lives of your family is actually what gets the job done.

To follow through on that though, what makes you think that would be anything noticeable? Suddenly a coinbase employee buys a cool car or other new toy... So what? Nobody would think that was exceptional.

I think this is why investigations require low levels of evidence to start, but high levels of evidence to end.

Just because it isn’t exceptional doesn’t mean that it isn’t worth looking into. People who are greedy are impulsive and are unlikely to hide an inflow of cash.

Theft isn't restricted to impulsive people though. It's mostly restricted to people who think they'll get away with it. Clever and cautious people may actually be able to.

Uh.

Yes.

But things don’t disappear do they?

I read this as putting people's behaviors under scrutiny because "just in case". You could use your reasoning to expand the surveillance state, etc. I cannot say I like the idea.

the problem is finding security pundits that know that crime can force people to do things in other ways than money...