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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Where did these Bitcoins end up?
by
bitmover
on 29/05/2020, 19:09:32 UTC
Tracking Ether transactions is easy....but I have no idea how to track Bitcoin transactions, I'm curious where these 99.99 BTC end up.

Full Disclosure: These were seized by the US Secret Service which is where the curiosity comes from.

Edit: Forgot to add the address lol

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/3DykGaJ7SGtbE7jqqntB4WBKJf9pcZZbd2

The owner used a mixing service and spread those 99 bitcoins among hundreds of addresses, and from those addresses he sent to more hundreds of addresses and so on. It is very hard to track them... Probably the original owner even received bitcoin which are not related to those addresses.

There are many mixing services around.

Tracking bitcoin transactions is most of the times easy as well, but this user tried to hide his bitcoins.