Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 2/7 - By mid-2017, AlphaBay carried 250,000 listings for drugs and 100,000 more for stolen IDs, malware, and counterfeits, serving 200,000 users and 40,000 vendors in Bitcoin and Monero. FBI acting director Andrew McCabe called it roughly 10 times the size of Silk Road.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 2/7 - By mid-2017, AlphaBay carried 250,000 listings for drugs and 100,000 more for stolen IDs, malware, and counterfeits, serving 200,000 users and 40,000 vendors in Bitcoin and Monero. FBI acting director Andrew McCabe called it roughly 10 times the size of Silk Road.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 3/7 - The founder: Alexandre Cazes, a 25-year-old Canadian in Bangkok, known online as Alpha02. His fatal mistake came on day one: welcome emails to early users were sent from his personal address, pimp_alex_91@hotmail.com. Investigators found it in 2014 headers.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 3/7 - The founder: Alexandre Cazes, a 25-year-old Canadian in Bangkok, known online as Alpha02. His fatal mistake came on day one: welcome emails to early users were sent from his personal address, pimp_alex_91@hotmail.com. Investigators found it in 2014 headers.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 4/7 - On July 5, Thai police crashed a car into Cazes's front gate, pretending to have botched a three-point turn. He walked out to check the noise. Inside, his laptop sat open and unencrypted, logged into AlphaBay's servers.
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/alphabay-largest-online-dark-market-shut-down
R to @daily_btc_lore: 4/7 - On July 5, Thai police crashed a car into Cazes's front gate, pretending to have botched a three-point turn. He walked out to check the noise. Inside, his laptop sat open and unencrypted, logged into AlphaBay's servers.
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/alphabay-largest-online-dark-market-shut-down
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 5/7 - Users fled to Hansa, the next biggest market. They didn't know Dutch police had secretly seized Hansa on June 20 and were running it undercover. Daily vendors jumped from 1,000 to 8,000 as AlphaBay refugees typed their delivery addresses into a police-run site.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 5/7 - Users fled to Hansa, the next biggest market. They didn't know Dutch police had secretly seized Hansa on June 20 and were running it undercover. Daily vendors jumped from 1,000 to 8,000 as AlphaBay refugees typed their delivery addresses into a police-run site.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 6/7 - In 27 days the Dutch passed 10,000 delivery addresses to Europol. On July 20, Jeff Sessions announced the AlphaBay seizure and Hansa went dark the same day. Cazes never saw it. He was found dead in Thai custody on July 12, an apparent suicide, a week after arrest.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 6/7 - In 27 days the Dutch passed 10,000 delivery addresses to Europol. On July 20, Jeff Sessions announced the AlphaBay seizure and Hansa went dark the same day. Cazes never saw it. He was found dead in Thai custody on July 12, an apparent suicide, a week after arrest.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 7/7 - A spreadsheet on that laptop put Cazes's net worth at $23 million: Thai villas, a Lamborghini Aventador, a Porsche Panamera, accounts in Cyprus and Liechtenstein. The U.S. moved to seize it all. Operation Bayonet became the playbook: kill the market, control the exit.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 7/7 - A spreadsheet on that laptop put Cazes's net worth at $23 million: Thai villas, a Lamborghini Aventador, a Porsche Panamera, accounts in Cyprus and Liechtenstein. The U.S. moved to seize it all. Operation Bayonet became the playbook: kill the market, control the exit.
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