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15936854 No.15936854 [Reply] [Original]

>im gonna build an anon online marketplace where you can buy drugs and be completely untraceable
>il use bitcoin as the anon currency!!
get fucked lmao!!

>> No.15936866

if you buy stuff from the darknet there is a thing called "OPSEC" most of these retards don't know anything regarding operational security.

>> No.15936877
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>>15936866
shut up nerd
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/orange-county-man-sentenced-17-years-federal-prison-selling-counterfeit-opioid-pills

>> No.15936913
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>>15936854
>implying you can't just tumble bitcoin
>implying anything is anonymous when everything is backdoor'd to shite anyway, with ToRs compromised Nodes

>> No.15936945

>>15936913
>implying you can't just tumble bitcoi
yeah that worked out great for the pedo ring they just busted

>> No.15936977

>>15936866
Honestly they probably cracked his opsec using some kind of high level spook shit and then just built a case after the fact via parallel construction

>> No.15936986

>>15936866
He had excellent opsec, they just really, really wanted him

>> No.15937007

>>15936986
>>15936977
He was only caught because he got sloppy. If he had kept up his opsec they would still be looking for him. The FBI admits they only caught him because he fucked up. They were looking for him for some time

>> No.15937062
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>>15936854
>$8.8 million in cryptocurrencies pooled across 1,605.05 bitcoins, 8,309.27 ether, 3,691.98 zcash and an unknown amount of monero,

>> No.15937778

>>15936854
back in 2011 if you mined btc u were anonymous. ross left a username email trace from his linkedin like a dumbass. bitcoin in 2019 for dark net is dumb tho

>> No.15937814

>>15936877
Haha I hope his asshole is gaping right now fucking idiot

>> No.15937828

>>15936986

>Excellent opsec

>Used his personal email to ask questions about dark net marketplace which then lead tho his actual Identity

Yeah ok

>> No.15937845

>>15937778
No he didn’t. He was traced through his username on Shroomery forum.

>> No.15937854

>>15937845
kek druggie btfo

>> No.15937928

>>15937845
You're both right. Dunno how you know the shroomery detail and not the email one though
> The connection was made by linking the username "altoid", used during Silk Road's early days to announce the website, and a forum post in which Ulbricht, posting under the nickname "altoid", asked for programming help and gave his email address, which contained his full name.