At least 870,000 bitcoins are associated with illegal activities. This is about $ 10 billion.
https://markets.chainalysis.com/#risk-illicit-placement
One day, all these bitcoins will somehow hit the market.
- Darknet marketplaces - 585,000 BTC.
- Stolen bitcoins - 204,000 BTC.
- Scam project organizers - 98,000 BTC.
- Other illegal activities 3,000 BTC.
https://markets.chainalysis.com/#risk-illicit-placement
One day, all these bitcoins will somehow hit the market.
In principle, this is not such a large amount of money relative to the total amount of money involved in illegal trafficking. Perhaps this is about 1% of the total mass. Illegal money trafficking in the world is actually huge and bitcoin is just a drop in the ocean from these funds. Only on the arms trade is used 20 times more than the amount announced above.