#qcx
> he lost roughly $28m on external exchanges
> $115m of the company’s revenue was conjured by Cotten
> $2m was pocketed by Cotten for his own luxury expenses
> $46m has been seized in court proceedings
> $23-24 million is unaccounted decrypt.co/32080/quadriga…
“The misconduct uncovered in relation to Quadriga is limited to Quadriga,” said the Ontario regulator, “and should not be understood as applying to the crypto asset platform industry as a whole.”
When it comes to financial crime, money laundering, etc. everyone goes thru a phase of thinking that the solution is knowing the identity of the account holder.
"if only we knew who moved these assets! then we would be able to catch them and stop crime!"
On Fri June 2nd, thousands of Atomic Wallet users had their wallets drained across basically every chain.
Each theft involved 1-3 new addies. Initially we were only able to link thefts on-chain if they sent gas to multiple addresses.
(green guys are what we put alerts on first)
The lack of consolidation means the majority of addresses collected so far came direct from users sharing their info w/ folks like @zachxbt or w/ Atomic, @elliptic, @SlowMist, etc.
We have no idea how complete our lists are currently, or how long the long tail will be.