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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by lgregg on Sunday August 02, 2020 @11:02PM (#24033822)
clicked through the transactions and found this wallet: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/17A16QmavnUfCW11DAApi...

a balance of 16m and over 1.4 trillon usd has passed through this account.

the oldest transaction i could find was 2019-11-02 14:19: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/17A16QmavnUfCW11DAApi...

Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by zaroth on Monday August 03, 2020 @12:08AM (#24034146)
I would assume one address with 377k transactions that has seen over 131 million BTC move through it strongly implies it's some sort of tumbler address. I'm not sure why reusing one address like this would make any sense though...
Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by Drdrdrq on Monday August 03, 2020 @09:13AM (#24037322)
It is more difficult to trace funds through a single node with gazillion transactions. This is part of the laundering scheme. Of course, all such addresses are immediately suspect, but if they pay out to innocent addresses too... It's difficult to distinguish between signal and noise.
Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by sonicggg on Monday August 03, 2020 @11:32AM (#24038981)
Isn't that overcomplicating things though? If tracing is a concern, why not use Monero instead?