{"id":138611,"date":"2025-10-17T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138611"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:00:11","slug":"us-seizure-of-tycoons-us13-billion-in-bitcoin-raises-anonymity-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138611","title":{"rendered":"US seizure of tycoon\u2019s US$13 billion in bitcoin raises anonymity questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostThe seizure by US authorities of US$13.4 billion worth of bitcoin from an alleged Cambodian criminal has raised questions over the safety of the digital assets and prompted frantic speculation in the crypto community over how the feat was accomplished.<br \/>\nWeak private keys and insider theft could have made it possible for US law-enforcement agencies to track down the bitcoin privately held by Chen Zhi, who is accused of running a massive \u201cpig butchering\u201d operation in Cambodia, according to experts&#8230;.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3329449\/how-anonymous-bitcoin-us-seizure-tycoons-us13-billion-tokens-raises-questions?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostThe seizure by US authorities of US$13.4 billion worth of bitcoin from an alleged Cambodian criminal has raised questions over the safety of the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}