Chainalysis - Reading Assignment

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#122

  1. What are the five most likely causes for a Bitcoin transaction being marked as ‘suspicious’?
    A) Stolen Funds. Coming from a dnm. Coming from a mixer. Coming from Terrorist financing. Coming from Ransomware payout address’.

  2. Which government agencies use Chainalysis software?
    A) FBI, IRS, SEC, CIA, AFT, RCMP Secret Service and Law enforcement agencies.

  3. What cryptocurrency does the whistleblower recommend for privacy?
    A) Monero.

  4. What advice does the whistleblower give for preserving anonymity when using Bitcoin?
    A) Avoid mobile wallets and unsecured internet connections. Always us a VPN

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#123

1.- “Being stolen funds (like from a hacking type incident), coming from a dnm, coming from a mixer, coming from terrorist financing, and coming from ransomware payout addresses.”
2.- HSI, FBI, IRS, ATF, DEA, SEC, Secret Service, CIA, among others.
3.-Monero
4.- Use always a VPN or TOR and use CoinJoin transactions e.g. using Wasabi wallet.

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#124

  1. Being stolen funds (like from a hacking type incident), coming from a dnm, coming from a mixer, coming from terrorist financing, and coming from ransomware payout addresses.

  2. HSI, FBI, IRS, ATF, DEA, SEC, Secret Service, CIA (through In Q Tel), and most of the other federal law enforcement agencies are running the software. NYPD, RCMP, Europol and NCA are also users.

  3. Monero

  4. Avoid mobile wallets, look into Wasabi/Coinjoin and similar efforts, run a VPN/tor at all times, remember that everything you check out on the clear net is being logged by someone.

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#125

1- What are the five most likely causes for a Bitcoin transaction being marked as ‘suspicious’?
1- Being stolen funds (like from a hacking type incident)
2- Coming from a dnm
3- Coming from a mixer
4- Coming from terrorist financing
5 - Coming from ransomware payout addresses.”
2. Which government agencies use Chainalysis software?
HSI, FBI and IRS
3. What cryptocurrency does the whistleblower recommend for privacy?
Monero
4. What advice does the whistleblower give for preserving anonymity when using Bitcoin?
Use mixer wallets like wasabi

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#126

  1. What are the five most likely causes for a Bitcoin transaction being marked as ‘suspicious’?
    Being stolen funds, coming from a dnm, coming from a mixer, coming from terrorist financing, and coming from ransomware payout addresses

  2. Which government agencies use Chainalysis software?
    HSI, FBI and IRS. In addition, “ATF, DEA, SEC, Secret Service, CIA (through In Q Tel), and most of the other federal law enforcement agencies are running the software. Only really large police departments are running the software like NYPD. Some district attorney offices have software licenses too. RCMP uses the software, Europol and the national police (NCA) in the UK.

  3. What cryptocurrency does the whistleblower recommend for privacy?
    Monero

  4. What advice does the whistleblower give for preserving anonymity when using Bitcoin?
    Avoid mobile wallets, look into Wasabi/Coinjoin and similar efforts, run a VPN/tor at all times.

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#127

What are the five most likely causes for a Bitcoin transaction being marked as ‘suspicious’?

As for the five likeliest things to have your bitcoin transaction flagged as suspicious, the answer came: “Being stolen funds (like from a hacking type incident), coming from a dnm, coming from a mixer, coming from terrorist financing, and coming from ransomware payout addresses.”

Which government agencies use Chainalysis software?

Chainalysis: a company that works hand in glove with law enforcement, governments, defense contractors and other three-letter agencies

What cryptocurrency does the whistleblower recommend for privacy?

Wasabi, a privacy-oriented BTC wallet that used Coinjoin. While conceding that bitcoin mixers are “still bad” for forensics firms, the anon asserted that “Wasabi is enemy number one. There is no way to de-anonymize it, and I don’t see how the government can legally take Wasabi down, so it will probably persist. Put it this way, if everyone used Wasabi, Chainalysis would go out of business.”

What advice does the whistleblower give for preserving anonymity when using Bitcoin?

“running your own node and electrum server is a great way to not get your IP tracked” by Chainalysis software, he countered that mobile wallets are bad for privacy.

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#128

Wasabi is a wallet, the currency he mentions is Monero.

#129

  1. What are the five most likely causes for a Bitcoin transaction being marked as ‘suspicious’?
    Hacks, ransomware, terrorist activity, mixer connection (Wasabi Wallet, BitLaundry, etc) and dark net markets.

  2. Which government agencies use Chainalysis software?
    Most all government agencies with 3 letters in the name. Mainly all big agencies that want to track criminal or terroristic funds.

  3. What cryptocurrency does the whistleblower recommend for privacy?
    Monero

  4. What advice does the whistleblower give for preserving anonymity when using Bitcoin?
    Avoid mobile wallets, use a VPN/tor at all times and run your own node electrum server to not get your IP tracked.

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#130

@Grant_Hawkins Thank you so much Sir

  1. funds coming from an address associated with:

    • hacks / theft
    • ransomware payout
    • terrorist funding
    • mixing services
    • darknet markets

  2. FBI, CIA, Europol, IRS, NYPD, ATF, SEC, CIA, RCMP, Secret Service

  3. MONERO MONERO MONERO MONERO MONERO MONERO

  4. VPN/Tor + Wasabi/CoinJoin + NO MOBILE WALLETS

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#131

What are the five most likely causes for a Bitcoin transaction being marked as ‘suspicious’?
Being stolen funds (like from a hacking type incident), coming from a dnm, coming from a mixer, coming from terrorist financing, and coming from ransomware payout addresses.

Which government agencies use Chainalysis software?
HSI, FBI and IRS ATF, DEA, SEC, Secret Service, CIA (through In Q Tel), and most of the other federal law enforcement agencies are running the software. Only really large police departments are running the software (it isn’t cheap) like NYPD. I know some district attorney offices have software licenses too, but I don’t know which ones. Oh and RCMP uses the software too. And Europol. The national police (NCA) in the UK, as well.

What cryptocurrency does the whistleblower recommend for privacy?
monero for privacy

What advice does the whistleblower give for preserving anonymity when using Bitcoin?
avoid mobile wallets, look into Wasabi/Coinjoin and similar efforts, run a VPN/tor at all times

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#132

  1. According to the whistleblower, the five most likely causes for a Bitcoin transaction being marked as suspicious are: being stolen/hacked funds, coming from a dnm, coming from a mixer, coming from terrorist financing, and coming from a ransomware payout address.

  2. The FBI, ATF, Homeland Security, SEC, IRS, DEA, Secret Service, and CIA all use Chanalysis software.

  3. The whistleblower recommends using Monero or Bitcoin + mixers for privacy.

  4. For preserving anonymity on Bitcoin, the whistleblower recommends avoiding mobile wallets, using Wasabi/Coinjoin, always run a VPN, and to keep in mind that everything you do/search for on the Clearnet is being logged.

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#133

1. What are the five most likely causes for a Bitcoin transaction being marked as ‘suspicious’

“Being stolen funds (like from a hacking type incident), coming from a dnm, coming from a mixer, coming from terrorist financing, and coming from ransomware payout addresses.”

2. Which government agencies use Chainalysis software?

HSI, FBI and IRS and most other federal law enforcement agencies, NYPD, RCMP, Europol, national police( NCA) in the UK etc…

3. What cryptocurrency does the whistleblower recommend for privacy?

Monero

4. What advice does the whistleblower give for preserving anonymity when using Bitcoin?

Avoid mobile wallets, looks into Wasabi/Coinjoin and similar techniques used to anonymise your transactions. Use VPN/tor at all times.

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#134

  1. What are the five most likely causes for a Bitcoin transaction being marked as ‘suspicious’?
    Hacked/Stolen funds, coming from a dmn, coming from a mixer, terrorist financing, and ransomware payout addresses.

  2. Which government agencies use Chainalysis software?
    HSI, FBI, IRS, ATF, DEA, SEC, CIA, very large police forces.

  3. What cryptocurrency does the whistleblower recommend for privacy?
    Monero

  4. What advice does the whistleblower give for preserving anonymity when using Bitcoin?
    Avoid mobile wallets, use a vpn/tor.

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#135

  1. Mixing funds,
    Funds from terrorist funding,
    stolen funds being dispersed,
    dark net funds, “ransomware” payout addresses
    (i cheated on the last one - I need to research the term)

  2. To name a few (and the ones that matter in my country) CIA, IRS and FBI. Europol to name one outside of my country

  3. They recommended Monero and possibly Wasabi.

  4. Always using a VPN and avoiding mobile wallets (to name a few)

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#136

  1. What are the five most likely causes for a Bitcoin transaction being marked as ‘suspicious’?
    Being stolen funds (like from a hacking type incident), coming from a dnm, coming from a mixer, coming from terrorist financing, and coming from ransomware payout addresses.”

  2. Which government agencies use Chainalysis software?
    HSI, FBI and IRS, RCMP, ATF, DEA, SEC, Secret Service, NYPD, EUROPOL,

  3. What cryptocurrency does the whistleblower recommend for privacy?
    Mixers and monero for privacy

  4. What advice does the whistleblower give for preserving anonymity when using Bitcoin?
    “I would say to avoid mobile wallets, look into Wasabi/Coinjoin and similar efforts, run a VPN/tor at all times, remember that everything you check out on the clear net is being logged by someone.

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#137

  1. The five most likely causes for bitcoin transactions being marked has suspicious are…
    bitcoin mixers, dark net markets, ransomware payouts, terrorist funding, stolen funds from
    hacked exchanges

  2. ATF, HSI, FBI, NYPD, CIA, IRS, RCMP, Europol, NCA, are some of the government agencies that use chainalysis software.

  3. The chainalysis whistleblower recommends using Monero for privacy.

  4. To preserve anonymity when using Bitcoin. It is recommended you use the Wasabi wallet in combination with a VPN.

    “remember that everything you check out on the clear net is being logged by someone”

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#138

A.Hacker
B. Dark net market
C. Stolen funds
D. Laundering Financing
E. Terrorist Financing

  1. FBI - CIA - Secret Service - NYPD

  2. Monero

  3. No mobile wallets, run VPN/tor

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#139

  1. What are the five most likely causes for a Bitcoin transaction being marked as ‘suspicious’?
    stolen funds, from a dnm, from a mixer, terrorist financing, ransomeware payout addresses.

  2. Which government agencies use Chainalysis software?
    HSI, FBI and IRS, ATF, DEA, SEC, Secret Service, CIA (through In Q Tel), RCMP and Europol most of the other federal law enforcement agencies are running the software.
    The national police (NCA) in the UK also

  3. What cryptocurrency does the whistleblower recommend for privacy?
    Monero

  4. What advice does the whistleblower give for preserving anonymity when using Bitcoin?
    would say to avoid mobile wallets, look into Wasabi/Coinjoin and similar efforts, run a VPN/tor at all times, remember that everything you check out on the clear net is being logged by someone.

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#140
  1. What are the five most likely causes for a Bitcoin transaction being marked as ‘suspicious’?
    stolen funds, darknet merchant related, via a mixer, or terrorist financing org and , via a ransomware payout addresses
  2. Which government agencies use Chainalysis software?
    law enforcement, governments, defense contractors and other three-letter agencies including but not limited to HIS, FBI, IRS, ATF, DEA, SEC, Secret Service, CIA, Large Police Departments like the NYPD, RCMP in Canada, Euorpool and the National Police (NCA) in the UK
  3. What cryptocurrency does the whistleblower recommend for privacy?
    Monero
  4. What advice does the whistleblower give for preserving anonymity when using Bitcoin?
    Wasabi is their enemy number one, use VPN/TOR at all times and remember that nothing is secret on the www
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#141

Chainalysis - Reading Assignment

  1. What are the five most likely causes for a Bitcoin transaction being marked as ‘suspicious’?
    Being stolen funds (like from a hacking type incident), coming from a dnm, coming from a mixer, coming from terrorist financing, and coming from ransomware payout addresses.

  2. Which government agencies use Chainalysis software?
    HSI, FBI, IRS, ATF, DEA, SEC, Secret Service, CIA (through In Q Tel), and most of the other federal law enforcement agencies are running the software.
    Only really large police departments are running the software (it isn’t cheap) like NYPD, RCMP, Europol and the national police (NCA) in the UK.

  3. What cryptocurrency does the whistleblower recommend for privacy?
    Monero.

  4. What advice does the whistleblower give for preserving anonymity when using Bitcoin?
    Look into Wasabi/CoinJoin and similar efforts, run a VPN/Tor at all times and avoid mobile wallets.

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