ChipMixer’ was a service that had been in existence since mid-2017, which in particular accepted bitcoins of criminal origin in order to pay them out again after concealment processes (so-called ‘mixing’). Deposited crypto values were divided into small uniform amounts known as ‘chips’ for the purpose of thwarting investigations. Cybercrime seeks to exploit boundaries, but the Department of Justice’s network of alliances transcends borders and enables disruption of the criminal activity that jeopardizes our global cybersecurity, The US and German authorities have shut down the world’s largest darknet money-laundering platform and seized over EUR 44 million in Bitcoin. They have also reportedly seized nearly seven terabytes of data after confiscating servers belonging to the world’s top-selling crypto mixer on the dark web. Who controls the dark web?