Maybe one day in the future, the fbi will give tutorials on using samurai wallet…

I actually found a site that was documenting this stuff. I forget right now and don’t have time to find it tonight, but there were reports on these same addresses of more sinister stuff than what I experienced. I really do hope that either that site gets more traction or LE follows up at some point.

Wow! Yeah, I guess I kind of started down this rabbit hole when I thought I was going to have this cool collaborative discussion with LE, but I’m seeing now how you could REALLY use these techniques as a criminal (like the violent kind, not the political dissident kind). Oddly enough, isn’t this probably the strongest argument in favor of coinjoin from an anyone-who-is-anti-criminals-and-violence standpoint?!

Sure, but I’d be doxxed anyway at that point, right? I definitely do try to keep my real bitcoin addresses from work or mining separate from interacting with kyced bitcoin I got at strike or cashapp or other places like that.

Oh yeah, I’ve given up on the sats. Mostly posting here for the community’s sake. That said, I did share my actual transactions with law enforcement and still didn’t hear anything. It wasn’t a lot of money I suppose in bitcoin fraud terms, but it was significant for me and my goals in life right now.

Just curious, is there any particular reason you suggest I shouldn’t share the specific transactions here? I already intuitively thought that wouldn’t be smart, but couldn’t pinpoint why. The transactions to these guys came from my strike wallet, so it wouldn’t dox my actual bitcoin holdings. I thought it odd at the time that they didn’t take lightning, not now knowing it was a scam, I’m guessing that was because it would be easier for me to out their node to the community than to out their addresses to law enforcement.

I mean…there’s no doubt that this would not have happened to a person less stupid than me.

I’m not hip to KuCoin, but if it’s a centralized exchange, doesn’t that mean that someone (apparently has to be law enforcement) can just contact them and ask which of their customers is linked to that particular address?

Oh cool, I’ll look into this at some point!

Is there a statute of limitations for this type of thing? I’d be happy to do this to protect future victims from these guys, but I won’t have realistic time (and sim data) for it for a few more months.

Oh man! Rabbit hole time!

Doh! I knew the LNBITS wallet I had on that demo was shot, but it looks like the next block anticipated time api is now out of date too.

😬😬😬😬 I actually still have a Facebook profile… I don’t think I’ve logged in in years though and really just kept it so no one else could be the fake me easily.

Did I ever share this on SN? It's the first thing I did after taking the @bitcoinplebdev class. Sadly, it's before I learned the whole @media thing, so it only works on laptop screens that are pretty close to the one that I built it on, but it's kind of fun if you've got the right sized screen and dig the whole TNG aesthetic.

I want to say I'm jealous, but I know that ultimately we all decide where we're at on this spectrum, so I'll just say that's awesome! I look back VERY fondly on pre-cellphone days.

Yeah, at the end of the day, I'm hoping the main point that I'm conveying here is that everybody has their reason for standing where they do in these spectrums, and we can't read each other's brains to really know why. I'm willing to accept the inconvenience of not using WhatsApp because I can. It's just that, inconvenient. If it meant not being able to communicate with a loved one, or putting a strain on my marriage, that would change the whole game for me too.

That's awesome!

Yeah, sadly, despite this post, I still need more of this type of instruction...

Well, I’m glad to be building the anticipation this early. The whole series is awesome.

Have you gotten to the episode “Darmok” yet?