Topic: [2016-08-22] Is the NSA Baiting the Shadow Brokers with Seized Bitcoin? (Read 381 times)
August 23, 2016, 04:48:37 AM
August 22, 2016, 11:43:32 PM
NEWS BITCOIN - Is the NSA Baiting the Shadow Brokers with Seized Bitcoin?
Last week, Krypt3ia stated that the Shadow Brokers are getting small amounts of cryptocurrency sent to their auction address from the Silk Road Bitcoin wallet. The sending wallet in question appears to be the same cache of Bitcoins seized when the Silk Road was taken down. The blogger Krypt3ia wonders why the U.S. government is sending the “tainted” bitcoins and believes maybe they are testing the waters with the hacker group.
The blogger explains his suspicions:
So, this is to say that these coins are still in the coffers of the feds and they are being sent to ShadowBrokers to chum the water here? Maybe get a conversation going? Maybe to get the bitcoins flying so others can trace some taint? Of course once you start to look at that address and the coins in and out there you get some other interesting hits. Suddenly you are seeing US Marshall service as well being in that loop. Which makes sense after the whole thing went down with the theft of coins and such by rogue agents of the USSS and DEA.
READ MORE >>> https://news.bitcoin.com/nsa-bait-shadow-brokers/
Last week, Krypt3ia stated that the Shadow Brokers are getting small amounts of cryptocurrency sent to their auction address from the Silk Road Bitcoin wallet. The sending wallet in question appears to be the same cache of Bitcoins seized when the Silk Road was taken down. The blogger Krypt3ia wonders why the U.S. government is sending the “tainted” bitcoins and believes maybe they are testing the waters with the hacker group.
The blogger explains his suspicions:
So, this is to say that these coins are still in the coffers of the feds and they are being sent to ShadowBrokers to chum the water here? Maybe get a conversation going? Maybe to get the bitcoins flying so others can trace some taint? Of course once you start to look at that address and the coins in and out there you get some other interesting hits. Suddenly you are seeing US Marshall service as well being in that loop. Which makes sense after the whole thing went down with the theft of coins and such by rogue agents of the USSS and DEA.
READ MORE >>> https://news.bitcoin.com/nsa-bait-shadow-brokers/
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