I just read every post on Part 1 and Part 2 of this situation....

It is amazing to me how little people know about laws in general and what is legal and or not legal...

"The Avenger" is 100% correct...Bitmixer.io participated in the crime once they knew the coins were stolen and continued to process them. In fact, bitmixer's whole concept would be seen as a money laundering facility in any court of law, but the fact that Bitmixer wrote on a public forum that "yes, the criminal did use our service to launder his coins" and "no, we will not give up his identity" is just about the dumbest thing I have ever heard of someone doing...

Klee's contract with the criminal is worthless...any contract where the 'consideration' is based on a criminal activity is automatically void...

If I were Klee I would have 100% taken the deal, and I would secretly be pursuing the criminal and I would still offer up the bounty, but instead I would offer a partial bounty for bitmixer.io's information... With that kind of money at stake, once I found the owner of bitmixer.io, I would break him down by starting with him first and then moving to family members...

As to BurtW, you just dont get it....

Mixers are fine and I support them as well....I don't want people tracking my every move either...but this situation is different, once the mixer has reasonable justification that a crime has been committed and thus funds are being laundered through their mixer, then its their ass on the line...

If bitmixer.io had any common sense, he would publicly say that he will not give up the thief, privately give up the thief, take the reward, and then Klee should dispose of the thief...and I would just let everyone think that the thief got away with...mix the coins back into Klee's possession, pay bitmixer.io the ransom and both can go on happily knowing the real situation and what happened....

Hopefully that scenario will scare the thief (that is, if it hasn't already happened and the thief is even alive at this point)....