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I'm surprised that despite eXch's claim that they have some friends in the intelligence sector, which precisely helped them decide to shut down their service in advance in a show of defensive move, there's still over 8 terabytes of data and €34 million left to be seized.
It made me curious. It doesn't even matter what these funds are for or these data are about, or whether they're incriminating or not. What's interesting is that they made their exit weeks ago and yet a considerable amount of data and a huge amount of money are still left when the authorities arrived.
Is it possible that those 8 TB of data aren't actually data, but storage space - something similar to what happened in the case of CM? It might make sense that there is such a large amount of data, but why (and what) would a swap exchange store that takes up so much space?
My theory about the value of the cryptocurrencies that were seized is that they may have been left with the intention of leaving the people who ran the whole thing alone. It's nothing new, in a way a kind of deal for the authorities to get money in exchange for giving up persecution - and besides, I think the guys behind this project made a lot more than those 30+ million euros.