1 sat \ 4 replies \ @shyfire 7 Nov 2022 \ on: US Attorney Seizes $3.36 Billion of Bitcoin In Connection With Silk Road bitcoin
Anyone got details on how they identified the physical location of this underground floor safe, obtained a warrant, etc? Was it via the BCH he sold?
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @shyfire 7 Nov 2022
Answered my own question!
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1549821/download
Check out page 17 for details about how they traced the transactions
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @shyfire 7 Nov 2022
bizarre on-chain activity by this guy... check this https://mempool.space/tx/481aa062147384e1511925f7b5bc1c22bdd0f6fdf1664ff2db134ef9b2263516
At first I though it was a whirlpool Tx0, but it's not.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @tomlaies 7 Nov 2022
That's pretty interesting. i wish we had much more powerful tools with bigger sankeys to look at this stuff. What's going on? Is there some 4d chess or is this an idiotic attempt at obscuring?
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8 sats \ 0 replies \ @shyfire 8 Nov 2022
It could be they just wanted smaller UTXOs to work with. Something stupid like that.
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