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This could have been far downstream from the hackers themselves. They might just have been monitoring the bitcoins and waiting for some to land in one of many addresses for which they have the private key. Presumably FBI is continuously scooping up whatever private keys they can.

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Yeah Elliptic and Chainanalysis make all their money by convincing people that all transfers are of the same Ultimate Beneficial Owner until it hits an exchange

As long as the ignorance stays high, they get government contracts

That's utter bs, exchanges generates unique BIP32 addresses for deposit. There isn't a master exchanges key used among all customers.

Which is not something I commented on at all

Genuinely curious why you think your response was related or even mutually exclusive

I actually probably commented on the wrong comment :-/

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