US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site

Re:US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Large... by billf1953 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @06:15PM (#21276562)

I must be missing something, I buy Bitcoin with a USD bank account, I send to another address and then this address sends to a known drug dealer. How do they establish the second address's identity?

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Re:US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Large... by kristianp on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @08:05PM (#21277563)

I guess the investigators found out somehow, for example by looking at transactions on a computer already seized for realayed investigations. Also by sending bitcoin to the service themselves, the investigators could trace the flow of coins into addresses used by the dealers to spend their bitcoins. Then backwards from there to other users payments.

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