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granted, I do think the UN has a vested interest to exaggerate these numbers a bit because the root recommendation to stop this always ends up being "KYC/AML everything about crypto" which breaks the decentralization benefits if taken to it's logical conclusion 

so for nation states that don't want to see their power eroded by humans having an alternative monetary system, making a scene about "terrorists paying for terror with crypto!!" ends up being a good strategy

see here for an example of a report about crypto funding terror being debunked as extremely exaggerated https://x.com/intangiblecoins/status/1833511882533310966?t=5dOAlH7QmbhVimGgHh0CFA&s=19

I disagree. The $3B figure came from the Panel of Experts, a mechanism between the U.S., UK, France, China and Russia that reports and evaluates evidence given to it by UN member states. There isn’t a conspiracy here unless you think the U.S. is working with China and Russia 😂

fair, and I don't think it's a conspiracy by any means, but I do think all those countries have a vested interest in trying to sway their citizens towards thinking "crypto scary and bad, don't trust money that isn't issued by a government!"

in which case I wouldn't be surprised if they swayed the numbers a bit by, for instance, valuing the crypto assets at their market price when stolen vs whatever % of that price North Korea actually gets when converting to laundered money they can actually use to buy stuff