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#174 - The FBI's New Cyber Super-Weapon Is The Dark Web's Worst Nightmare | Andy Greenberg

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Cryptocurrency Tracing - Is Someone Setting This Guy Up?

Two FBI agents in Washington, DC were looking at the alpha bay cluster of 2.5 million Bitcoin addresses that chain analysis had figured out belonged to alpha bay. They realized like the only person who is not going to be freaked out and pull their money out of those wallets when an exit scam happens is the boss himself, the admin. The one who controls the whole market. So they found exactly this like some collections of like big troves of crypto that had sat unmoved even as exit scams happens. And then eventually like some of them had been later moved out of those addresses sent through like some hops and then eventually ended up at exchanges. That was real proof that he was alpha to

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