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If stolen bitcoin is recovered vs not, is it because the cybercriminals left a trail?

How secure is gajim, omemo vs telegram or whatsapp or any other application?

Why is it that the bigger amount of bitcoin which is stolen directly right from exchanges itself or used to launder money from online bank heists, the likelyhood of hackers getting caught gets considerably higher? Lets say 40 million usd worth of bitcoin vs 1 billion usd or more of bitcoin...

If someone in new zealand wanted to hire a private investigator in the u.s. but wanted to make the ip address seem like they were within the u.s. like houston, tx or chicago, ill, ect... how can they change the ip address in such a way so if law enforcement in the u.s. looked into the ip address...

Why is it that recently many hackers who have used bitcoin to launder money or attack crypto exchanges themselves have been caught even when they apparently dont make any mistakes? Why even when they dont make any mistakes they get caught? Why would this be the case? Why is this?

How could the u.s. justice dept recover 15 billion usd from someone in cabodia i believe that was using a pig butchering scam? https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/bitcoin-doj-chen-zhi-pig-butchering-scam.html Were u.s. interests at hand since the u.s. got involved? Why did the u.s. get involved?

Could law enforcement track down bitcoin if its a lot even if someone used cryptomixer.is? I only ask because someone told me on this forum that if the lubian bitcoin hack had used this service they wouldnt have been traced...

How was the hacker behind the lubian bitcoin heist caught by law enforcement? Why did it take a while?

If bitcoin didnt have market value before July 2010, what does this mean? How could people buy it if it didnt have any market value then other than p2p, otc, and mining?

When did the first bitcoin purchases on mt gox first take place?

Was mt gox the first "real" exchange and if so, when did they first start selling bitcoin? What made them the first "real" exchange?

Im trying to use a bitcoin calculator online from bitbo.io but for some reason it only allows me to get a price from about july 30, 2010! Prior to that it says it cannot fetch price, whats going on here?

Would it have been easy like today to have purchased like maybe 12 or 1300 usd worth of bitcoin before july 2010 on early exchanges online?

How did people find out about bitcoin in 2009 and the first half of 2010? If they found out by way of online forums, but what pointed them in the direction of forums? What precursors pointed in that direction if not word of mouth advertising or the bitcoin mailing lists? Can someone please...

Why have many crypto exchanges been shut down by the fbi and other police agencies? Recently garantex.io/org has been shut down because of money laundering but so have many others… how do criminals use exchanges to launder their money? Who or what finds out that such exchanges were lending...

Apart from strict word of mouth advertising, bitcoin mailing lists, how else could people have known about bitcoin in 2009 or maybe 2010?

If someone bought as much bitcoin as they wanted in the early days of exchanges and used paypal to buy bitcoin but noticed something wrong like a discrepancy or something wrong, would paypal find a resolution just because they acted immediately? If their money was either stolen or account...

Was paypal a good or bad option to buy bitcoin in the early days of exchanges?

Like when did bitcoin first start appearing on social media like facebook? What year? Could an approximate date be given?

Did only certain people get the bitcoin mailing lists in the beginning like in 2009 or 2010 to their personal email?