Don't see it anywhere in the document boss.
your very first "source" doesn't say what you claim it does.
show me where in
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1352571/dl
they indicate "The Justice Department says they found the admin of Incognito Market by tracing his monero"
Discussion
STNs standard operating procedure,
throw something together, lie about what the data says and make more work for the people who are interested in truth
Bro wants to work for the mockingbird media so badly it's not even funny.
In the cited document, look at pages 24-25, the section "LIN’s Crypto Account-1 Received Marketplace-1 proceeds." In those proceedings, they show -- through a trace -- that Lin converted criminal proceeds into monero and then withdrew them to a monero wallet and then sent them to a KYC'd exchange to sell them.
They document 4 traces in subparagraphs i, ii, iii, and iv where he did this and they outline the technique they used to perform the trace. Then, in subparagraph vi, they state that they got Lin's identity because the exchange where they traced the money to had his KYC data, namely, his mobile number, his email, and his driver's license.
That is a trace where the identification and arrest of the target happened after, and due to, tracing monero.
If that's the case then it still has nothing to do with the feds tracing Monero, but instead is about using KYC exchanges i.e bad OPSEC.
Even the most anonymous cryptocurrency will not protect you if you KYC yourself.
> it still has nothing to do with the feds tracing Monero
It has everything to do with the feds tracing monero. You know why they knew he used that exchange? Because they traced his monero to it. If you stop them from tracing the money in the first place, they never learn what exchange he uses, and thus they don't know who to subpoena for user info.
They don't claim at all that they traced Monero. In fact they specifically mention tracing Bitcoin and DO NOT mention Monero at the top of the section just before they
"As described below,
Crypto Account-1 appears to have received substantial funds from Marketplace-1. Using software
tools, law enforcement officers have reviewed the publicly available Bitcoin digital ledger, as well
as the transaction history of Crypto Account-1, and learned the following, in substance and in part:"
They don't claim to have any transparency into his XMR transactions. According to them, they we watching the BTC blockchain, the swap service and the CEX.
LE got this information by identifying the person and their BTC addresses FIRST
And then watched them send their BTC through the swap and saw the Monero appear in their CEX account.
Zero transparency into the Monero transactions.
You are a liar calling this "tracing Monero"
And that's just the FIRST of your "sources"
this is exactly right. they were already watching his account in the CEX and saw the monero arrive there.
the moral is
"don't think that sending your surveiled Bitcoin through a swap to your exchange account makes them clean"
No it absolutely does NOT say that.
Subparagraph vi says:
"vi. Documents from the provider of Crypto Account-1 indicate that its user
provided Phone Number-1 as his mobile number, Lin Personal Email Account-1 as his email
address, and the below pictured Taiwanese Driver’s License as proof of identity. The below
Taiwanese Driver’s License, with redactions applied over certain identifying information, lists an
address in Taipei, Taiwan and the name is “林睿庠,” which is the Mandarin language spelling of
“Rui-Siang Lin.” In addition, the Taiwanese Driver’s License listed the driver’s license number
for “林睿庠,” (“License Number-1”)."
Nowhere in the document does it claim they got his identity from tracing Monero.
In fact, according to this, you can't know if they traced Monero AT ALL, since it just states that he made swaps through to a CEX that had his KYC.
They make ZERO claim they had this information BEFORE they had access to his wallets.
You're lying for clout again.