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When Ross Ulbricht received a $ 31 million bitcoin Donation last weekend from an unknown source, many observers considered him more than a very beautiful gift to the welcome house. Rumors revolved that the creator of the Silk Road, less than five months after forgive From Donald Trump who saved him from a prison in prison, a mine was a mine of his criminal products hidden from his days Execute the first black Dark Web market More than a decade before.
Now, cryptocurrency tracing investigators say they came to a foreign explanation: money was not at the origin of Ulbricht and did not come from the silk road. Instead, they suspect that it came from a different Dark long -term black market: Alphabay.
The CLOSE analysis channel Tracer La Crypto indicates that, based on blockchain analysis, it linked the 300 bitcoins sent to Ulbricht on Sunday involved in Alphabay, a dark web market which finally sold a wide variety of drugs and cybercriminal contraband from 2014 to 2014 and finally experienced the size of the Silk road, according to the FBI.
Chainalysis indicates that the funds seem to have emerged from Alphabay around 2016 and 2017. Given the amount of the donation, the chainysis suggests that it could come from someone who acted as a large -scale seller on the market. “We have reasonable reasons to suspect that these funds are from Alphabay,” said Phil Larratt, director of investigations at Chainalysis and former head of the National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom. “Looking at the amount, it would suggest that they came from someone who was perhaps a seller on Alphabay at the start.”
Wired contacted Ulbricht to comment on the origin of the donation via contacts during the Free Ross campaign which pressure for his forgiveness, but did not immediately receive an answer.
Before the conclusion of Chainalysy, which the donation of $ 31 million seems to come from Alphabay, the independent investigator of the crypto-tracing known as the name of Zachxbt had already Posted on his account on X His own discoveries that money did not seem to come from the silk road. Zachxbt found that, despite the donor by the donor of several Bitcoin “mixers” who adopt user parts and refer others to obscure their path on the blockchain, he was able to trace the funds at an address that had been reported in the reactor of the Chainalysy software tool as linked to an illegal activity. This analysis suggested that money was a “legitimate gift but not legitimate funds,” wrote Zachxbt in a text message in Wired.
Zachxbt also noted that the same person who controlled the funds had cashed other cryptocurrencies during an exchange in small quantities distributed rather than in a single sum, which suggests that he or she could try to prevent them from grasping or reporting – another sign that money can come from criminal origin. “Using several mixers, spreading the CEX deposits, etc.”, wrote Zachxbt to Wired, using the term CEX to signify a centralized exchange, “this is usually done if you try to avoid enhancing illegal funds.”
