{"id":26542,"date":"2020-07-28T13:34:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T10:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=26542"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:59:25","slug":"chainalysis-identifies-nearly-900000-illicit-bitcoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/chainalysis-identifies-nearly-900000-illicit-bitcoins\/","title":{"rendered":"Chainalysis Identifies Nearly 900,000 &#8216;illicit&#8217; Bitcoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number of bitcoins linked to illicit activity has reached more than 890,000 (about $9.7 billion at the rate at the time of writing). This is evidenced by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/markets.chainalysis.com\/#risk-illicit-placement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">data<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from Chainalysis&#8217;s Market Intel portal.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-105722\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_165-1-300x181.png\" alt=\"Chainalysis identified nearly 900,000 'illicit' Bitcoins\" width=\"820\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_165-1-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_165-1-1024x617.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_165-1-768x463.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_165-1.png 1354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The origins of the funds are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>585,000 BTC \u2014 darknet markets;<\/li>\n<li>over 204,000 BTC \u2014 stolen coins;<\/li>\n<li>over 98,000 BTC \u2014 wallets of scam projects;<\/li>\n<li>3,000 \u2014 other illicit activity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regardless of origin, bitcoins linked to illicit activity are usually moved to cryptocurrency exchanges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-105723\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_167-300x174.png\" alt=\"Chainalysis identified nearly 900,000 'illicit' Bitcoins\" width=\"820\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_167-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_167-1024x592.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_167-768x444.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_167.png 1397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In July, Chainalysis launched the Market Intel data and analytics portal. It is designed for asset managers and regulators interested in monitoring cryptocurrency markets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of bitcoins linked to illicit activity has reached more than 890,000 (about $9.7 billion at the rate at the time of writing). This is evidenced by data from Chainalysis&#8217;s Market Intel portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1292,274,1515],"class_list":["post-26542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-aml-kyc","tag-chainalysis","tag-tracking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26543,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26542\/revisions\/26543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}