Of course they can identify it. The public ledger is... public.
Either:
They cracked or have a backdoor into ECDSA encryption and they were willing to expose that capability publicly to save a mere $2M.
The US was behind the hack themselves.
#1 would cause a lot of digital systems involving ECDSA to crumble. You'd also see other systems crumble as people would likely lose trust in many encryption techniques. This does not make sense for recovering $2M. The only other explanation is that it was an inside job.
You can, through chainalysis, find where a wallet is located by checking which miners relay transactions first and which IP addresses connected to which nodes. You just have to have access to many nodes yourself.
Could it be that they were able to recover ost of it because this was a Deep State/government hack job and the pipeline company was promised most would be returned except for the fee charged by the government hacker?
I was just having a conversation with another anon about how bitcoin was the cabals dream with how they could make your money disappear without you even being involved. I was told I didn't know what I was talking about.
And here you have the perfect example of why a digital currency is so easy for anyone to make disappear. This time it was the government making the bad guys ill gotten gains disappear, but if your money is in this illusionary shit it could just as easily be the cabal making your money and your life disappear because they didn't like something you said or did.
These fools should have asked for green backs, or better yet gold.
Bitcoin has never been untraceable. How do you think they tracked all the fucking perverts accessing the dark web Boystown site? They tracked them through Bitcoin and other crypto currency they were using to access the site.
Nothing quite like a traceable (valueless) currency
Bingo.
This proves the FBI is behind it. The FBI needs to be dissolved.
So they asked the guy in the cubical next to them to give up the key.
It's easy to get , when they are all players on the same team
Surely it was multi-sig?
Hunter, Joe, Nancy, Chuck… shall I continue…
So they got most of it back.
Can't forget 10% for the big guy, amirite!
"According to court documents, the FBI was able to identify the wallet through the blockchain public ledger."
Hmmm...
The question isn’t how they identified the wallet or address, but how they managed to get the private key…
☝??This.
1). Uhh...cuz they already had it?
2). Joe gave it to them? NM, too effin DUMB.
3). Dr Jill & Kamala handed over the Nano.
Of course they can identify it. The public ledger is... public.
Either:
They cracked or have a backdoor into ECDSA encryption and they were willing to expose that capability publicly to save a mere $2M.
The US was behind the hack themselves.
#1 would cause a lot of digital systems involving ECDSA to crumble. You'd also see other systems crumble as people would likely lose trust in many encryption techniques. This does not make sense for recovering $2M. The only other explanation is that it was an inside job.
Very true.
You can, through chainalysis, find where a wallet is located by checking which miners relay transactions first and which IP addresses connected to which nodes. You just have to have access to many nodes yourself.
Could it be that they were able to recover ost of it because this was a Deep State/government hack job and the pipeline company was promised most would be returned except for the fee charged by the government hacker?
The FBI owns 1.5 percent of all bitcoins. They confiscated it from Silk Road.
I could swear that Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht.
I was just having a conversation with another anon about how bitcoin was the cabals dream with how they could make your money disappear without you even being involved. I was told I didn't know what I was talking about.
And here you have the perfect example of why a digital currency is so easy for anyone to make disappear. This time it was the government making the bad guys ill gotten gains disappear, but if your money is in this illusionary shit it could just as easily be the cabal making your money and your life disappear because they didn't like something you said or did.
These fools should have asked for green backs, or better yet gold.
?
So they can do that…
You're close.
HOW TO MAKE A MINT: THE CRYPTOGRAPHY OF ANONYMOUS ELECTRONIC CASH
Laurie Law, Susan Sabett, Jerry Solinas
National Security Agency Office of Information Security Research and Technology
Cryptology Division
18 June 1996 https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm
Bitcoin has never been untraceable. How do you think they tracked all the fucking perverts accessing the dark web Boystown site? They tracked them through Bitcoin and other crypto currency they were using to access the site.
You can trace it but you can't reverse the transaction.
Then how was it that it was 'seized'? It doesn't much matter if the transaction can't be reversed if they can take the bitcoin.
captured my sentiment exactly. What BS is this article and announcement? pffft...