That's the BS reply that always comes when (in particular) bitcoin is associated with crime: that it is traceable. Well, it hardly is. And for the average policeman/woman, even less so. And when the owner has taken some care, as you admit, practically impossible even for experts.
It's not BS though? That's what companies like Chainalysis professionally. This was covered in graphic detail as to how they caught a pedo ring in Andy Greenberg's book Tracers In The Dark.
>This yields 806 repositories with adoption dates between January 2024 and March 2025 that are still available on GitHub at the time of data analysis (August 2025).
There were very few people who thought that coding agents worked very well back then. I was not one of them, but I _do_ think they work today.