"Supercriminals are also always pondering that question themselves. There are predictable tricks they tend to develop, for not exposing their real identities to each other, for placing mutual deterrents against betrayal. We try to make it hard for them to coordinate, but they do not want it to be hard for them to coordinate, and ultimately they are allowed to think about it too."
"From that level of perspective, what you saw here today was a criminal innovation in distributed payment. Their ability to individually profit from the market disruption is capped by the need to have the visible portion of any wealth gains, or power exercises, not stand out statistically in the light of other disruptions. This means that dozens of coordinated supercriminals can all take a profit of the maximum unremarkable size, from the predictable market disruption, so long as they do so separately and individually."