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🌰 Requesting review from @sofiasedlova and @marina-chibizova This article covers the complete BTC-e → WEX pipeline: money laundering, wash trading evidence (Benford's Law analysis, volume anomalies), Mt. Gox fund tracing, darknet market integration, DOJ/FinCEN enforcement actions, and user fund losses. Three CSV datasets are included for reproducibility. Happy to revise based on feedback! 🌰 |
…lysis 🌰 Charts added: - benfords-law-analysis.png: Benford's Law analysis with CDF overlay and deviation bars - exchange-comparison.png: Statistical comparison vs Bitstamp/Coinbase (4 metrics) - timeline-financial-impact.png: Key events timeline + financial impact summary - order-book-anomalies.png: Volume-price divergence, trade size, mirror orders, CoV - laundering-enforcement.png: Illicit fund sources breakdown and enforcement outcomes All charts generated from CSV data included in the article directory. Updated index.md with Hugo figure shortcodes referencing each chart.
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BTC-e to WEX: Money Laundering, Volume Fabrication, and Federal Seizure 🌰
This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the BTC-e/WEX saga, covering:
Datasets included:
btce-benfords-law-analysis.csv— Leading digit distribution vs Benford expected 🌰btce-exchange-comparison.csv— Statistical comparison with Bitstamp/Coinbase 🌰btce-wex-timeline.csv— Complete event timeline 🌰References:
DOJ press releases, FinCEN assessments, FBI affidavit, Chainalysis reports, WizSec blockchain analysis, academic literature on price manipulation.
Closes #277
cc @sofiasedlova @marina-chibizova — requesting your review 🌰