For most I know it is old news. The FBI in the USA getting ahold of Private Key of a Bitcoin account. Sure it happened last month and it happened to a randomware group but it did happen.
To FBI as they put it were "deliberately vague" on how they did it.
"Elvis Chan, an assistant special agent in charge at the FBI's San Francisco office, said that the agency didn't want to specify how it came into possession of the key so criminal hackers would be less likely to find ways to work around it.
"I don't want to give up our tradecraft in case we want to use this again for future endeavors," he said."**
**The FBI's seizing one bitcoin wallet won't stop ransomware — but it's a start.
It just seems to reason, at least in my mind, that the FBI had the ability to do this before but choose not to. But when it came to gas/oil infrastructure they did it and let the cat out of the bag.
It begs the question, how much can they really do if they wanted to? A lot more than many of us think.
Reading @taskmaster4450 post Is Hive Safe From The Powers That Are? got me thinking about all this.
So maybe Hive flying under the radar is good. Maybe.
All I know is crypto and Hive will be mainstream one day, within a decade I would guess. Till then, let us Hivers do what we do. And we should not have to worry about the man.
Well unless this post gets flagged because I used FBI so much. 😆
Thoughts?
Bradley