Quote from: BurtW on July 13, 2014, 01:31:46 PM

Quote from: The Avenger on July 13, 2014, 12:29:21 PM

Quote from: CIYAM on July 13, 2014, 11:46:58 AM

The BTC has already been through a mixer

Wrong. No mixing has taken place on the major balances:

https://blockchain.info/address/1PkzdYBpcLvf5kKUanbp7dpGEjt9AvNVmN
https://blockchain.info/address/1EyJWr7qwJazi8F4q3uEXDJLRhSHkqfaGd
https://blockchain.info/address/1HZMa4M9ZXmcLEvALVop8Ks1dJFApMdKEU

The coins are being split into smaller and smaller amounts, but are still totally traceable to the original stolen balance.

The way the mixer works is this:

1) You put the coins you want mixed into the system.
2) After just a few confirmations and subtracting out the 0.5% fee the mixing system sends you new mixed coins that it already has in reserve.
3) At that point the thief was done, they had their stolen coins back from the mixer within a few confirmations.

4) After the transaction is complete the mixing service goes to work on the coins that the customer sent to them. The coins are chewed up over many hours/days and spun with other coins they have in reserve getting them ready to send out to other customers.

So, you can see that the addresses you are looking at have nothing to do with the thief's new coins they got from the mixing service.

Your statement:

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Wrong. No mixing has taken place on the major balances

is incorrect. It would more acurate to say. The original coins are being processed. The thief is long gone.

But then there is no point of thief returning the coins, only if he knows that he exposed his real IP, or left any other traces somewhere along the way.