{"id":78853,"date":"2022-02-12T18:23:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T23:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=78853"},"modified":"2022-02-12T18:23:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T23:23:05","slug":"not-easy-to-follow-this-at-all-at-least-not-for-me-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/02\/12\/not-easy-to-follow-this-at-all-at-least-not-for-me-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Not easy to follow this at all&#8230;at least not for me. [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/bitcoin-seizure-record-doj-crypto-tracing-monero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The DOJ\u2019s $3.6B Bitcoin Seizure Shows How Hard It Is to Launder Crypto<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from wired.com by Andy Greenberg<br \/>\n<em>A couple allegedly used a \u201claundry list\u201d of technical measures to cover their tracks. They didn\u2019t work.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWhat was amazing about this case is the laundry list of obfuscation techniques [Lichtenstein and Morgan allegedly] used,\u201d says Ari Redbord, the head of legal and government affairs for TRM Labs, a cryptocurrency tracing and forensics firm. Redbord points to the couple&#8217;s alleged use of &#8220;chain-hopping&#8221;\u2014 transferring funds from one cryptocurrency to another to make them more difficult to follow\u2014including exchanging bitcoins for &#8220;privacy coins&#8221; like monero and dash, both designed to foil blockchain analysis. Court documents say the couple also allegedly moved their money through the\u00a0Alphabay dark web market\u2014the biggest of its kind at the time\u2014in an attempt to stymie detectives.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Easy to follow\/understand, isn\u2019t it!?! Not.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DOJ\u2019s $3.6B Bitcoin Seizure Shows How Hard It Is to Launder Crypto &#8212; from wired.com by Andy Greenberg A couple allegedly used a \u201claundry list\u201d of technical measures to cover their tracks. They didn\u2019t work. Excerpt: \u201cWhat was amazing about this case is the laundry list of obfuscation techniques [Lichtenstein and Morgan allegedly] used,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,858,306,831],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-cryptocurrencies","category-economics","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78854,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78853\/revisions\/78854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}