NEW: A newly unsealed federal court opinion emphasized the role blockchain analytics played in helping law enforcement agents find and confiscate some 94,000 bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex. realDannyNelson reports
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Federal agents wrote that they acquired the addresses and private keys to some 2,000 wallets after obtaining a warrant to search the defendants’ cloud storage services. It’s unclear whether this was the same warrant.“Cryptocurrency and related software analytics tools are ‘[t]he wave of the future, Dude. One hundred percent electronic,’” Faruqui concluded, tipping his hat to The Big Lebowski’s rug-loving stoner lead.
Indeed, legal documents released Tuesday detail IRS agent’s focus on a “specific cluster” of crypto wallet addresses that led them to Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, the Manhattan couple arrested on money laundering charges.'Like Genghis Khan, but With More Pizzazz': What We Know About the Accused Bitfinex Money Launderers“Humans are ‘Flawed. Weak. Organic,’ whereas clustering software strives for perfection,” Faruqui said, partially quoting the 1996 film, Star Trek: First Contact.
“For the first time ever, the Court analyzes the weight and reliability of blockchain evidence finding that blockchain analytics tools like TRM Labs are reliable and can form the basis of probable cause for a warrant,” he said in an email to CoinDesk.IRS-CI has signedwith Chainalysis, Elliptic and TRM Labs; all had something to say following yesterday’s news.
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