https://web.archive.org/web/20160325013714/http://blog.cryptsy.com/
These two addresses had 100BTC incoming transactions in 2014, and weren't spent until 2020:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/15yRZyEyzwyNhCFBfqWBJDXsuJn9WJVhnJ
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/17QwFUD9awdi4JcncVrkxfDDBvEos8HU8H
These two addresses had 100BTC incoming transactions in 2014, and weren't spent until 2021:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/12KBnNKkEdjcojNZ7ceBhDBJWhMZbtttgr
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/159m8sYcDJwPfJaVpLeKJitkQTiPKevnY4
The last address to have 100BTC sent to it remains unspent here:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1AA8YJ2DeYr99BS1PrsFKWC1p9hXT28dup
The reward/bounty address that Paul Vernon set up had small amounts sent to it in 2016. It was spent in February this year suggesting that even if Paul Vernon wasn't in control of the above, he is certainly in contol of the below and thus, must be alive.
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1KNi4E4MTsF7gfuPKPNAbrZWQvtdQBTAAa
If you follow the trail, it always ends up at an exchange. For example, if you follow the https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/159m8sYcDJwPfJaVpLeKJitkQTiPKevnY4, you'll see that it follows a trail to Binance's hot wallet here: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1NDyJtNTjmwk5xPNhjgAMu4HDHigtobu1s
This BTC is long laundered through Binance and HitBTC. As the Class Action is now over, I'm assuming it's done and dusted as far as the lawyers on the case are concerned; they certainly haven't responded to my comms.
This is some good forensics and it took me down a rabbit hole, revisiting the feud between BitJohn and Gleb for the last hour. I wonder if CZ would care about this sort of thing. Binance has taken actions to stop flows of coins from hacked/scam exchanges. HitBTC... wouldn't count on it.
BitcoinXpress once said that Big Vern started a new exchange in China... guess business from that dried up at some point?
The new Chinese exchange was running even before cryptsy closed..
Bitebe9 it was called iirc
Had to use wwww.bitebe9.com to make it work
It goxed too..
Just disappeared one day with some dust I sent to it to play with it..