Add to that @Atko will not even explain what happened. If this site was not a honeypot before, I'll put up a bitcoin it is now. Not that it matters since user funding and ads have been deactivated for months which brings up the question of funding. Though why fund a site when the development is effectively dead, with no new features after the big port.
I don't actually believe this is voat's wallet.
I did when I posted that buy have since seen the error i made.
I have no idea how much btc voat has. I clicked on this post hoping someone had actually figured it out, only to find that they were linking to my post from a year ago. funny
It’s cause they keep moving it as soon as it’s donated, or at least as far as I can tell. I saw 6 bitcoins donated 11 months ago, and have seen the amounts come and go, but can’t find the original threads.
Interesting. It's something I haven't tracked or stayed on top of.
I don't know of any reliable block explorer tools that reliably allow you to track someone's bitcoin funds. Some of the larger, older bitcoin wallets have been identified and people track them, but if someone is trying to obfuscate their wallet balance, I think it's really hard to track them without NSA-level resources at your disposal. I think it's only going to get harder over time to as more crypto currencies adopt privacy features. For example, you can use Bitcoin Cash, XVG, and Monero (as well as others) virtually anonymously in an untraceable way. I use Bitcoin Cash almost exclusively.
You can also launder them through an exchange (Binance, HitBTC, Poloniex, ...) by trading them for another cryptocurrency like Monero or XVG, then trading them back to BTC
No I don’t, but I believe the block chain may be found distributing coins to that account as a link.
I know that voat had at least 49 bitcoins at one point. The fact that the wallet only has 7 bitcoin transactions makes me think it’s another account used.
All transactions are connected in the blockchain. Just because Voat's wallet contains a transaction from another account, who had 49btc at the time, doesn't mean the other fat wallet belongs to Voat. To me that's just nonsense!
I don't keep track of Voat's financial data. Based on that last fundraising announcement, there wasn't that much btc, certainly nowhere near 49btc. We could ask @PeaceSeeker to run a better estimation of current situation.
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firex726 ago
Add to that @Atko will not even explain what happened. If this site was not a honeypot before, I'll put up a bitcoin it is now. Not that it matters since user funding and ads have been deactivated for months which brings up the question of funding. Though why fund a site when the development is effectively dead, with no new features after the big port.
GoodGodKirk ago
They had 49 bitcoins when they shut down donations. 37 cashed out, with the remaining 12, they have nothing to worry about for awhile.
JuiceTown ago
I don't actually believe this is voat's wallet. I did when I posted that buy have since seen the error i made. I have no idea how much btc voat has. I clicked on this post hoping someone had actually figured it out, only to find that they were linking to my post from a year ago. funny
GoodGodKirk ago
It’s cause they keep moving it as soon as it’s donated, or at least as far as I can tell. I saw 6 bitcoins donated 11 months ago, and have seen the amounts come and go, but can’t find the original threads.
JuiceTown ago
Interesting. It's something I haven't tracked or stayed on top of.
I don't know of any reliable block explorer tools that reliably allow you to track someone's bitcoin funds. Some of the larger, older bitcoin wallets have been identified and people track them, but if someone is trying to obfuscate their wallet balance, I think it's really hard to track them without NSA-level resources at your disposal. I think it's only going to get harder over time to as more crypto currencies adopt privacy features. For example, you can use Bitcoin Cash, XVG, and Monero (as well as others) virtually anonymously in an untraceable way. I use Bitcoin Cash almost exclusively.
GoodGodKirk ago
A good python script pointed to the URL resources with a known blockchain to monitor would be able to track it. NSA not needed.
JuiceTown ago
There are variety of ways to defeat that for someone wanting to cover their trail. You can launder bitcoins using a tumbler (or mixer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_tumbler
You can also launder them through an exchange (Binance, HitBTC, Poloniex, ...) by trading them for another cryptocurrency like Monero or XVG, then trading them back to BTC
JoeKerr ago
do you have a source on that info?
GoodGodKirk ago
More than I originally heard: https://voat.co/v/whatever/1871503
MadWorld ago
$7.7 million usd? That's bullshit! Check out the wallet yourself: https://blockchain.info/address/1PhBpbED6uEnrvy5s9F9axBZbK8fWAeZdc?offset=0&filter=6
GoodGodKirk ago
They followed voat’s wallet and found it connected to another account, which is the one posted.
MadWorld ago
But that's someone else's account. Do you have a link to that wallet in question? Thanks!
GoodGodKirk ago
No I don’t, but I believe the block chain may be found distributing coins to that account as a link.
I know that voat had at least 49 bitcoins at one point. The fact that the wallet only has 7 bitcoin transactions makes me think it’s another account used.
MadWorld ago
All transactions are connected in the blockchain. Just because Voat's wallet contains a transaction from another account, who had 49btc at the time, doesn't mean the other fat wallet belongs to Voat. To me that's just nonsense!
I don't keep track of Voat's financial data. Based on that last fundraising announcement, there wasn't that much btc, certainly nowhere near 49btc. We could ask @PeaceSeeker to run a better estimation of current situation.
GoodGodKirk ago
That may be better as I can’t find the other posts to link here.
CrimsonFuckr ago
well now i know where putt went, he's blowing a mill on hookers and blow. good for him
JoeKerr ago
got to hand it to ya...good source
JuiceTown ago
lol
GoodGodKirk ago
Only the best for my fellow goats.
stillinit ago
So all the talk about "muh server costs" was a lie? I knew it.
GoodGodKirk ago
Never heard anything about server costs.