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.
"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.