The laundromat. Last week, Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet published a bombshell. The story, titled “Spotify has become an ATM for criminals”, explains how gangs use the streaming platform to launder money. Cash from drug sales is converted to bitcoin. The cryptocurrency is then used to pay “click farms” that play songs from artists signed on record labels that are close to the gangs. Said labels receive a payout from Spotify, which is – I assume, this is not detailed in the piece – given back to the gangs as perfectly legal dividends.