Quote from: FanEagle on June 08, 2021, 07:19:17 PM

There is also a chance that FBI actually didn't get the money, but just claimed they got the money back so that they could basically just act as if "if you try to ask for ransom from us, we will catch you and we will get our money back and throw you in jail" so to speak, hell it could be ALL a fake situation, this is FBI we are talking about, these guys (along with NSA and CIA) overthrow whole governments, you think they would be just willingly pay ransom and be fine with that?

The FBI dind't pay a ransom, it was the company that paid it.
Second, you are free to not believe it but the coins are there, the address has been seized and the FBI holds those coins now, so, you will have to come with a scenario explaining where are those coins coming from, how did they manage to fabricate the links to previously tainted coins and why are the hacking groups silent on this aspect?

Quote from: FanEagle on June 08, 2021, 07:19:17 PM

Of course they are going to make a whole deal out of this. I do not know what really happened but it smells fishy in here and I do not know what it is exactly.

Are you sure it doesn't smell fishy just because you refuse to acknowledge facts that you don't like?

Quote from: avikz on June 08, 2021, 05:44:14 PM

Very much possible! If this news is true, that's really great. I wish FBI will be able to recover all of the ransom paid, every bit of it. My self as a bitcoin holder and supporter, feel immense pain whenever I see bitcoin's involvement in any illegal matters. I hope FBI get a hold on to the hackers and send them behind the bars for a really long time. These kind of incidents actually empowers the bitcoin haters to speak against it.

You will neer be able to find a way to solve things in a way that everyone is happy
It's good the coins were recovered but this will point out a lot of other problems, where was that sever located? How did the FBI get jurisdiction over it? Where they able to get information by making VPN companies or ISPs hand over the private data of their customers?