Coinfirm: "US authorities do not take into account forks when confiscating BTC"

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Coinfirm: «власти США не учитывают монеты форков при конфискации BTC»

According to Coinfirm, law enforcement agencies ignore many fork coins when confiscating bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies from criminals.

According to article
on the Coinfirm blog, the company discovered "a significant amount of crypto assets subject to confiscation", by government agencies left in wallets. These crypto assets can still be available as criminals, So are law enforcement officers.

The same closed key in addition to bitcoins gives access to a number of other coins, if they did not move after the outlets of the blockchain: BCH, BSV, BTG and several dozens, Most of which are no longer valuable. And these coins after confiscation usually remain untouched.

A recent confiscation is given in the blog as an example
Cryptocurrencies in size 69 370 BTC, At that time equivalent are more than $1 billion. The US Department of Justice, that these bitcoins were stolen in 2012 and 2013 year by the organizer of Silk Road Ross Ulbricht (Ross Ulbricht).

There was a hacker behind the abduction, whose personality is known to the US authorities, But in the documents it takes place under the pseudonym Individual X. After the abduction of the bitcoins, Ross Ulbricht threatened the hacker, But Individual X did not succumb to threats and did not spend abducted bitcoins. Anonymous hacker helped the Ministry of Justice gain access to the wallet, and in return was released from charges.

Coinfirm said, that the coins of Forkov Bitcoin traveled, who were not confiscated by the authorities. The company discovered wallets, Related to Silk Road assets, For Bitcoin Private Coins, Bitcoin diamond и Super bitcoin, the total cost of which exceeds $ 387,000.

"That, who has access to closed keys of the source wallet, still has access to these crypto actes ", – writes Coinfirm.

The company said, which also discovered "dozens of cases", in which the authorities could leave money accessible to criminals "instead, To properly take into account and confiscate these assets ".