[Beowulf9]

My guess: After listening to the retired FBI guys last night on the news and other people with knowledge of Bitcoin evidently money put into a Bitcoin ‘Wallet’ can be immediately transferred out electronically, parsed/spread out to other accounts, even many making it difficult to discover to even impossible and even then once transferred to other accounts those accounts can be immediately transferred to other accounts and so on...

Sounds like a fake looking to grab money.

Keep in mind I know NOTHING about Bitcoin other than what was said last night on the news but this sounds like what it is to me and I bet the FBI think the same.

Buncha rats out there.

[Vermont Lt]

What the FBI guy said was essentially true. But the government is getting really good at tracking this stuff.

Anyway...it’s when the bitcoin gets converted into some other currency that they screw up. If the perp is in the US, the companies that do that stuff are tied pretty closely to the authorities.

Bitcoin is not the Wild West that it was in 2017.

[StAnDeliver]

"My guess: After listening to the retired FBI guys last night on the news and other people with knowledge of Bitcoin evidently money put into a Bitcoin ‘Wallet’ can be immediately transferred out electronically, parsed/spread out to other accounts, even many making it difficult to discover to even impossible and even then once transferred to other accounts those accounts can be immediately transferred to other accounts and so on..."

You can 'poison pill' a Bitcoin transfer. Colonial Pipeline did it with the help of Mandiant (now owned by Google) and the Feds.

That was 5 years ago. Setting a Bitcoin trap is light-years improved now.