ZachXBT Says He Spent $349,700 Posing as Client of Lazarus-Linked Launderers

This is notable less for the sum involved than for the method: an independent investigator effectively buying visibility into a laundering pipeline rather than waiting on chain analysis or law enforcement subpoenas. It underscores how the boundary between researcher and paying customer is blurring, with its own legal and ethical exposure. Whether such self-funded infiltration becomes a repeatable tactic, or remains a one-off, is the open question.