Darknet Market Operators Who Stole 40 Thousand BTC Face Prison Time

This week the accused thieves from the infamous Sheep Marketplace have been indicted by prosecutors from the Czech Republic. The charged suspect Thomas Jiřikovský may face up to 18 years for firearms charges, theft, and drug trafficking. https://news.bitcoin.com/darknet-market-operators-who-stole-40-thousand-btc-face-prison-time/


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[12 Points] deafbeth:

40k BTC...


[8 Points] ciphersexual:

I miss the Reddit threads that went like:

Redditor1: Why are you idiots flocking to a market named "sheep?" They straight up named the market after their plan to sucker you in and rob you.

Redditor 2: C'mon dude, no market is dumb enough to do that. It'd be like LE creating a market named "The Honeypot."

Redditor3, takes toke: What if.... they plan to exit scam but think if they name the market so obviously about their intent to rob us we'll think "no way." Classic double bluff!


[4 Points] None:

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[4 Points] Cestar77:

Go big or go home amirite


[3 Points] None:

All these people are idiots, they made huge ospec flaws


[3 Points] bigredandugly:

What an idiot.


[2 Points] trappy_AB:

Theft from criminals is still theft, he could have been a free man if he gave the money back.


[1 Points] mcyosserton:

Can anyone give any insight as to how they got caught and how to not made the same mistakes they did? From the article it seems like police were able to track them down using some pretty advanced methods and using btc tracking of some sorts which I thought didn't happen.


[1 Points] Hairybristols:

No symphathy at all for theives