All it needs to be able to do is transfer money to people who won't ask questions. If Bitcoin had been invented in 2038 instead of 2008, I wouldn't have any other way to be certain that Satoshi Nakamoto was a human.

At any rate, if the AI is smart then there are alternatives to begging.

What you're describing is a very poorly run criminal organization.

It would be poorly run because pure money is not a strong enough incentive to hire someone to commit a crime for you, because that money can easily disappear once it is seized by the local government. Usually criminal organizations operate on a degree of trust, trust that would be hard to establish from some LLM that can, at best, fake a face on a zoom call.

Satoshi's coins are easy to play around with because they are at least legal to hold and sell (for now). If they weren't, few would bother with them.