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Yes, but tracking that is not easy and we're "only" talking about 120k USD$ here - single persons have been scammed for more. You can steal one car and be above
by Sebb767 6y ago
Yes, but tracking that is not easy and we're "only" talking about 120k USD$ here - single persons have been scammed for more. You can steal one car and be above and beyond that.
That's my theory on why they (presumably) didn't touch the stock market or the POTUS account - even if they're found, they really can only be charged with a modest damage sum and some vague hacking accusations; nothing that warrants a global manhunt.
- AustinDev 6y agoMonero, Zcash to BTC atomic swaps work which would let you completely erase the origin of the funds especially with such a small amount.
- Already__Taken 6y agothat could be an interesting vector, don't the feds have shit load of BTC from various busts? could they dump a billion into the wallet to make it impossible to launder?
- np_tedious 6y agoI don't think atomic swaps need to be the full contents of a wallet. It means "atomic" in the usual transactional sense, not that it's all-or-nothing per address. But even still, the idea to prevent money laundering by sending orders of magnitude more BTC than the initial scam... bold idea.
- samstave 6y agoThey took a crapton in the Silk Road bust - and then several of the cops involved were charged with then stealing some of the seized BTC https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-silkroad-idUSKBN1D804H https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-silkroad-idUSKB...