When LE busted Ross for SR, they alleged he made 80m in comissions from about 1-2 years of operation. Alphabay had a comission fee similar to that of SR, ran for almost twice as long as SR and its growth largely exceeded that of Silkroad's, growing over 10 times SR.
Am I the only one to find wierd that AB owner ended up with 4x less money than Ross, despite running a similar business, twice as long, ten times larger? And that is not even accounting for bitcoin value increase.
LE claimed that when they got Cazes' laptop unencrypted, he kept a "map" where he listed all his assets, and that all his bitcoin wallets were accessible by LE.
Surely he kept some hidden? 23m Is way too low, he should have made at least a half bill
In my opinion, either Cazes had a secret brain wallet where he kept most his money, or the numbers given by the FBI on both Ross and Cazes' are bullshit. The math doesn't check out.
There is no reason to believe a single word of information.