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Unbeknownst to the Alphabay team, two of the FBI’s best cryptocurrency tracers had recently begun to experiment with an investigative method no one had ever pulled off before: tracking down a dark-web administrator through the techniques of blockchain analysis alone. 7/12 — PolitiTweet.org

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At times, this perfect veneer led even the US investigators to doubt themselves. Could their too-good-to-be-true tip have been some sort of elaborate misdirection? Could someone have purposefully leaked the email address as a way to frame this Cazes, to use him as a patsy? 6/12 https://t.co/ioZ6dtrtgK — PolitiTweet.org

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This tracking technique had only recently become attainable. A company called Chainalysis created powerful new methods that flipped the criminal promise of Bitcoin on its head, rendering the blockchain into a series of breadcrumb trails that investigators could follow. 8/12 — PolitiTweet.org

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