There are still some countries without extradition and 2B should get you pretty far. Plus I don't think the police would have expected a deployment of this proportion for a warez website.
I doubt they would have given away the keys, if bitcoin was in fact useful. Because actual billionaires indeed don't play by rules of the common pleb.
Thinking of billionaires... they will have a similar dilemma at hand, giving orders inside their fancy end-of-times bunkers. I heard they consider shock collars :D
"You can use money laundering tactics to interact with the actual financial system, because the actual financial system doesn't want your crypto."
I give and receive gift cards often enough, and no, no one is going to bat an eye if you're occasionally buying something with a gift card. If that's the primary way you interact with the financial system, I'm going to assume you're involved in some kind of crime and I've got a good chance at being right in that assumption.
Yeah, when your finances are tightly monitored by law enforcement?
Hope those open source projects come to your aid, and good luck paying mercenaries in gift cards :D