yeah I've never seen a crypto investigation that made me impressed with the government's abilities, nothing that surprised me about the utility of OPSEC best practices, only people with weak links and dumb behaviors that are incompatible with doing something criminal.
You're not serious, right? You clearly haven't seen some of the latest unlicensed money transmitter prosecutions. The resourceful agents over at HSI have come up with an incredibly effective method of stopping crime in the Bitcoin network. It looks something like:
CS1: "I would like to exchange these dollars which I represent to be the proceeds of the sale of controlled substances in violation of the Controlled Substances Act for Bitcoin."
