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0 pointsvmception4y ago0 comments

The warrant is for a location in Northern California and they needed a warrant to get it.

Use your head man, this means they literally went to a Federal Judge and said "hey we have probable cause that this address is on Coinbase" and the Judge was like "wow that is pretty probable" and then they took the warrant to Coinbase who was like "oh damn that's legit ..... can we squirm out of dealing with this .... no ... oh wow that is our address too, okay here is the private key" and then the FBI transferred it

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dragonwriter4y ago

> The warrant is for a location in Northern California

No, its not.

Its for a particular Bitcoin address for which the FBI had the primary key. The FBI can’t legally seize coins just because it has a private key any more than it can seize physical property because it has a key to a house. It needs a warrant to use the key, which will only be issued with probable cause that the material is subject to seizure.

> Use your head man, this means they literally went to a Federal Judge and said "hey we have probable cause that this address is on Coinbase"

They literally did not; the warrant and supporting affidavit are public (with some redactions), and that is not, even remotely, what they say.

nojito4y ago

>The warrant is for a location in Northern California and they needed a warrant to get it.

Not neccessarily.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1402056/downl...

The FBI in Northern California simply needed permission to use the Private Key they already had to access the bitcoin address.

The court that has jurisdiction over these types of crimes is in Northern California.

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