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How did US officials "seize" bitcoin? Were they working with an exchange? The Bitcoin addresses were said to be based in Russia. Was the Russian government invo
by arkanciscan 5y ago
How did US officials "seize" bitcoin? Were they working with an exchange? The Bitcoin addresses were said to be based in Russia. Was the Russian government involved?
- arkanciscan 5y agoSeems that the bitcoin was conveniently stored in a wallet on a computer in Northern California. https://duo.com/decipher/u-s-seizes-usd2-3-million-from-darkside-actors-who-targeted-colonial-pipeline https://duo.com/decipher/u-s-seizes-usd2-3-million-from-dark...
- sigmoid10 5y agoStill doesn't explain how they got a hold of the wallet's private key. Yes, it is possible to trace bitcoin between wallets and if you're working with the NSA it seems also easy to get a hold of IPs that accessed them. But getting to the actual computer that was behind an IP, much less the cryptographic key that may or may not be stored on it, is a different question. Maybe they don't even want people to know the process, to prevent others from evading it.