From this article they got $15B (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/bitcoin-doj-chen-zhi-pig-but...). At what point do you say, "That's enough money?" Did they think the scam was going to go on forever?
You end up dead because your co-conspirators don't want to end up in a cage.
Wonder how this whole concept overlays onto LLMs, with a lot more money on the line and a lot less regulation.
You underestimate the intensity of human greed.
In a way it's like with an overfunded startup: when at some point in time the music stops because even the last would-be investor realized that the business will never be profitable, the company collapses. But all those paychecks received for playing with Other People's Money don't magically return.