Quote from: suchmoon on December 02, 2014, 11:45:48 PM

Quote from: I_IZ_CEO on December 02, 2014, 11:16:23 PM

Quote from: suchmoon on December 02, 2014, 10:04:28 PM

You can probably figure it out from there.

Was that part the joke?

Seems like it also goes into the mixer, different addresses for each payment, 2 transactions on most addresses, etc. Will look more into it.

Not really. It's not a mixer, at least the first few transactions leading to that address are not mixing anything, it's actually the "correct" way of doing BTC transactions - you transfer some amount to another address and the change goes to a new address. Then you use that change to transfer to another address and the change goes to a new address etc. That's why you see two transactions per address and then it's abandoned. But you can track it back to some "big" addresses if you follow the sig campaign payments - those are nice round amounts like 0.1 or 0.05.

For example this is where the last sig payment seems to have originated from:

https://blockchain.info/address/3MTdedCnsAaZSvRDPJSMbMPzFmq6v3SSZh

It might be coming from a coin mixer at that point, I don't know. Don't expect it to be easy. I don't think they used a single hot wallet for everything.

Thanks for the explanation, was wondering what the 2 addresses paying to 1 address were for. I was looking at other addresses that signed up on the same day and tried to follow payments to their addresses 1 month later (give or take a couple of days), didn't find much of the same payment addresses, maybe some didn't complete the sig. Will look more into this when I have some time to play (not that I will find anything but hope to learn more about how blockchain/payments work).

Thanks again for the lesson, it was a valuable one for me