How to calculate the amount of illegal business crimes committed by the NFT digital collection platform?

Source: Mankiw Blockchain Law

According to the provisions of the criminal law, the criminal amount in the crime of illegal business is illegal income. "Research Opinions on the Identification of Income", "Illegal income" in the crime of illegal business refers to the "amount of profit", that is, the amount of money obtained by the perpetrator's illegal production and sale of goods or provision of services. All income (i.e. illegal business amount), the remaining amount after deducting the reasonable expenses directly used for business activities.

Therefore, if an NFT platform commits the crime of illegal operation due to lack of certain qualifications or failure to obtain approval or license from relevant departments, its operating income minus reasonable expenses (operating costs) will be the "profit" generated , which is the illegal income from the crime of illegal business operations. The rent of business premises and labor wage costs can be deducted because they are reasonable expenses directly used for business activities. In addition, based on the characteristics of the NFT platform, some network expenses (such as cloud services, website fees, advertising expenses, etc.) should also be deducted.

Expressed by the formula, it is:Amount of crime = total operating income - reasonable operating costs.