Thanks again for the lesson, it was a valuable one for me
See my edit, I think I found the link to the 1P62 address. Not sure if that proves anything though. Do we now if that's really GAW's address and not e.g. a hot wallet at some exchange?
It might be interesting to try to cross link it to ZenCloud deposits and withdrawals, and also see if any anonymous pools (e.g. Eligius, NiceHash, CleverMining) are linked to it. Or to any newly generated coins.
Here's my original post on that address: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9610951
I don't think it's an exchange because 99% of the payments being sent are below 0.001 btc.
Many payments sent to 1P6 can be traced directly back to 1P6 but some just lead to addresses with a bunch of unintelligible inputs. I'm not sure if they are using a mixer but it does seem deliberately confusing. Still I've never found a single payment that came from newly generated coins.
Good, thank you. So it seems reasonable to assume that 1P62 is their main hot wallet, and it had a ~28k turnover in 2 months, which would make that part of WSJ validation correct.
I tracked a couple of my old withdrawals and they originated from 1P62 as well, about 10-20 hops apart.
Not sure how to prove or disprove the mining part though. They could say their coins have to go through a mixer to obfuscate "business secrets" therefore newly generated coins won't be directly linked. Perhaps something could be done tracking deposits, but I'm not about to try that since my withdrawals are not working.