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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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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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Using these new methods, the FBI’s crypto tracers identified suspected dark-web addresses and tracked the Bitcoins of those accounts through multiple “hops” all the way to cash-out points where the account owner traded the Bitcoins out for traditional currency. 9/12 https://t.co/xItGvVmKNw — PolitiTweet.org

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