>If you were the gubment and you wanted to maybe trace these fuckers would you maybe try to chum the bitcoin waters to see what wallets are used for any liquidation of the bitcoins later?

The address of the auction is public. Sending more bitcoins to the address doesn't make sense. The only way it would make sense to send Bitcoin to the address is if you waited until the Bitcoins had been spent, and send a bit of dust to the address, in the hope that their wallet spent it along with some other Bitcoins.

The more likely explanation is that somebody is messing with the people observing the auction. By my count, there are only two serious bids that follow the rules set out by the shadow brokers.

I haven't been following the Silk Road coins, but I thought they'd been auctioned off?

http://www.coindesk.com/four-winners-44000-bitcoins-final-si...

> gubment

Wat.

> I am LOVING the l337 status on those transactions hahaha

What does this mean?

The screenshots are low quality, so here's a link to the transactions page itself

https://blockchain.info/address/19BY2XCgbDe6WtTVbTyzM9eR3LYr...

You'll see a bunch of transactions for 0.001337 BTC, which apparently can be traced back to coins in government agency-seized funds. That's what the post means.

Also happens to be a rickroll if you look at the addresses.

Other source: http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/someone-rickrolled-th...

This is surely the weirdest governmental communication ever. I'm fascinated by the idea that someone had to tell the NSC and White House, "NSA wants to rickroll the Russian government using DoJ-owned bitcoins seized from a dark web drugs-and-assassinations forum." Evidently our branch of the multiverse is a pasteup being collaboratively written by Grant Morrison, Charlie Stross and Neal Stephenson.

I just feel like clarifying that it was in no way an "assassination forum"