130 sats \ 0 replies \ @DeezSats 8 Nov 2022 \ on: US Attorney Seizes $3.36 Billion of Bitcoin In Connection With Silk Road bitcoin
As in every case where somebody gets busted, Zhong deanonymized himself by sending coin to an exchange. Exchanges are giant honeypots for the feds to use, because they are KYC touch points that serve to anchor the artifacts of their heuristical analysis (unproveable suspicion) into solidly identifying data. It's like when James Bourne shows up at the embassy with his real passport.