Quote from: dragonvslinux on July 13, 2022, 12:42:02 PM

Quote from: REALbagholder010 on July 13, 2022, 07:22:28 AM

I heard MT GOX getting their coins back, this really gives me hope Cryptsy will be next Grin

I can only assume you're being sarcastic here? These coins are long gone by looks of it. After initially mixed in 2014, the easily traceable "mixed coins" were broken down into smaller sizes this year and already circulating on most major exchanges. Blacklisting addresses does nothing when there are now increments as small as 0.25 BTC across thousands of different addresses, if not tens of thousands.

Here's a look at a few of the output trails that caught my attention, bottom right (red dots) is Binance laundering them, this isn't even the full picture either:

Law enforcement are going to struggle to get any coins back to users even if do they find the hacker, unless they find the private keys/seed backed up on a cloud account like with the Bitfinex hack.

How much does the jackass that stole all of this have in possession in theory? From what i've read it's 11k BTC. That's $222,200,000 at current rates. Just having to launder all of that gives me an headache. He's going to spend more time trying to not screw up mixing utxo's and trying not to send a transaction that uses one that identifies him in some fiat gateway and then trying to justify where all this money came from than actually enjoying the money. If we were in the 90's I would say he would easily do it in some remote tax haven island but nowadays it's becoming increasingly difficult, so he's going to end up in one of the few areas that escape the up and coming supranational rulings on money laundering. By the time someone increases it's networth a lot it will be obvious, unless he just cashes out small amounts to not raise alarms but then again you are insanely rich but you cannot enjoy the money.

Of course, recovering the money is another story. I have myself some funds lost in there and I have some emails and screenshots, but for peace of mind I have considered the funds lost years ago.