Quote from: jimmothy on November 21, 2014, 09:46:11 AM

But from that address it's only a few more hops until you reach 18Yrkm5cRqT1MiqwAUBDcN64hWb1pLutsW which receives it's BTC from 1P62VZZ9kL97dzzcWhG7JZDssaW2MDgn82.

Following the trail I noticed that there are tons of addresses receiving miniscule amounts of btc (less than 0.0005).

This seemed strange considering the withdrawal fee is 0.0001 so I decided to follow the btc.

Look at these addresses:

https://blockchain.info/address/1FvFfnuMxYnaiKMBuRNdcEYkPoQMGx7Cg5
https://blockchain.info/address/1MCGWXnKEgKCSfmZcK67gg1k3gWdbwhfvK
https://blockchain.info/address/1CqBSkWkoxRJv1YMxZVkn2G2iMHxGva7RF
https://blockchain.info/address/1M6m9Lh9XtYsKbfPYcm7Bm9FJ186FJZU9d
https://blockchain.info/address/18iTDLS7qT72KkWXC9s8bWfe8cTu7vnQ1o
https://blockchain.info/address/19LusNnuBSaK9P1w18aXboqHeuPyhHEob4

If you go to the origin address https://blockchain.info/address/1P62VZZ9kL97dzzcWhG7JZDssaW2MDgn82

First you will notice that none of the received btc originate from mining.

Second you will notice that the BTC 1P6 receives comes from a shit ton of addresses which received their BTC from none other than 1P6.

TLDR:

- No BTC originating from mining
- hundreds of fake addresses receiving payouts which are almost immediately sent back to the origin address

Two of my own withdrawals ended up at 18Yrkm5cRqT1MiqwAUBDcN64hWb1pLutsW and 1P62VZZ9kL97dzzcWhG7JZDssaW2MDgn8 too.

The transaction which eventually led to my BTC withdrawal also had a concurrent transaction ending at this address: 3HxJoT5L3aSuKKzNaLWyPiPVyZ6UJRVZGd