There might be many of you who do not know about the story of the DAO hack and how this caused much stress and anger in the Ethereum community. This also caused Vitalik and his development team to fork Ethereum to save the investors’ money in the DAO. It is a long story and everything is summarized in the article. Everyone who does not know this story should read it.
In any case, I am very skeptical of what is being told about
de-mixing in this article. Can Chainalysis really
de-mix Wasabi transactions and trace where every coin went? We cannot be certain of this. This should not be taken as real until the de-mixing method is explained and proven. Chainalysis can use this
claim against the community.
Jumping off from the Coinfirm analysis, blockchain analytics company Chainalysis saw the presumed attacker had sent 50 BTC to a Wasabi Wallet, a private desktop Bitcoin wallet that aims to anonymize transactions by mixing several together in a so-called CoinJoin. Using a capability that is being disclosed here for the first time, Chainalysis de-mixed the Wasabi transactions and tracked their output to four exchanges. In a final, crucial step, an employee at one of the exchanges confirmed to one of my sources that the funds were swapped for privacy coin Grin and withdrawn to a Grin node called grin.toby.ai. (Due to exchange privacy policies, normally this sort of customer information would not be disclosed.)
The IP address for that node also hosted Bitcoin Lightning nodes: ln.toby.ai, lnd.ln.toby.ai, etc., and was consistent for over a year; it was not a VPN.
It was hosted on Amazon Singapore. Lightning explorer 1ML showed a node at that IP called TenX.
For anyone who was into crypto in June 2017, this name may ring a bell. That month, as the ICO craze was reaching its initial peak, there was an $80 million ICO named TenX. The CEO and cofounder used the handle @tobyai on AngelList, Betalist, GitHub, Keybase, LinkedIn, Medium, Pinterest, Reddit, StackOverflow, and Twitter. His name was Toby Hoenisch.Read in full https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2022/02/22/exclusive-austrian-programmer-and-ex-crypto-ceo-likely-stole-11-billion-of-ether/?sh=1b412f9b7f58
