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This could have been far downstream from the hackers themselves. They might just have been monitoring the bitcoins and waiting for some to land in one of many a
by mortehu 5y ago
This could have been far downstream from the hackers themselves. They might just have been monitoring the bitcoins and waiting for some to land in one of many addresses for which they have the private key. Presumably FBI is continuously scooping up whatever private keys they can.
- vmception 5y agoYeah Elliptic and Chainanalysis make all their money by convincing people that all transfers are of the same Ultimate Beneficial Owner until it hits an exchange As long as the ignorance stays high, they get government contracts
- mnouquet 5y agoThat's utter bs, exchanges generates unique BIP32 addresses for deposit. There isn't a master exchanges key used among all customers.