I'm very ignorant about Bitcoin, but given El Salvador's big problem with crime, doesn't adopting Bitcoin give the cartels an extremely easy way to launder their money?
Bitcoin has a public ledger, so once you know who the owner is of a particular address, you can view all of their past transactions and all the addresses of those transactions, potentially exposing a lot of metadata of their activities
no it doesn't.
Most drug runners/dealer are not chemical engineers... they just hire guys that know what they're doing.
Same in the crypto space.
The tech isn't inherently evil or criminal, its the people that use it that way that make their activities using it criminal.