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0 pointsSebb7675y ago0 comments

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.

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AustinDev5y ago

Monero, Zcash to BTC atomic swaps work which would let you completely erase the origin of the funds especially with such a small amount.

Already__Taken5y ago

that 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?

samstave5y ago

They 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-idUSKB...

np_tedious5y ago

I 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.

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