The Jinghua City case continues to spread. Taiwan People's Party Chairman and former Taipei Mayor Ko Wenzhe was found guilty by the Taipei District Court of committing crimes such as accepting bribes and seeking profits in violation of the Corruption Crime Ordinance, and was in danger of destroying evidence and colluding with evidence. The Taipei District Court ruled on the 5th The detention ban has exceeded 10 days.
Recently, Taiwanese media reported that when prosecutors searched Ke Wenzhe's home recently, they found a flash drive containing a "mysterious account book", which recorded "2022/11/1 Xiao Shen 1500 Shen Qingjing", thus questioning Ke Wenzhe's suspicion of accepting 15 million from Shen Qingjing. . BlockTempo reminds: "Everyone should be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to law."
1500 refers to 1500 Bitcoins?
As the case continues to spread, Ke Wenzhe has recently been suspected of hiding financial flows through virtual currency. Chen Minfeng, a senior media person, recently pointed out in a Sanli program that "1500" refers to 1,500 Bitcoins, which is worth about NT$2.8 billion based on the current Bitcoin price of nearly US$59,000.
Chen Minfeng also questioned that if the cash flow did not move, the prosecutor would hit a dead end in checking the cash flow.
The possibility of receiving 1500 Bitcoins is low
However, in response to this statement, some cryptocurrency experts explained that 1,500 Bitcoins are worth a lot of money, now equivalent to nearly NT$3 billion. If such a large amount has a flow record on the Bitcoin blockchain, it will basically be The on-chain data tracking agency lists it as "Whale Transfer Assets". In terms of cash flow analysis, it is very easy to detect, because large amounts of Bitcoin in and out are very easy to investigate.
Therefore, if Ke Wenzhe really has a cold wallet, and his cold wallet received 1,500 Bitcoins from Shen Qingjing, if it was received after 2022, the blockchain cash flow tracking technology would have been quite developed at that time. According to the current situation, it is not possible It's very possible that it can't be found.
Maybe there are exceptions?
However, experts point out that there may still be exceptions. For example, if the Bitcoin cash flow remains intact from a very early stage and is directly transferred from a cold wallet instead of a transfer, it may not be verified, but in this case is almost unlikely to happen.
If the giver is an early Bitcoin miner and restores the mining wallet on the cold wallet through the private key, he can let the cold wallet own the Bitcoin without transferring any Bitcoin or leaving any traces. .
But experts say that the reason why the industry will not do this is also very simple, because it means that the giver also has the private key of the wallet and can secretly transfer the amount inside, which means that the recipient’s funds may be transferred away. Risk, therefore, donations are still typically transferred via on-chain transfers.
However, in response to the recent rumors that Ke Wenzhe's cold wallet was seized, the prosecutor recently issued a statement to clarify : I don't know where the news of the seizure of the "cold wallet" came from? The prosecutor also did not seize the USB in the safe. The relevant reports are inconsistent with the facts, so the facts have yet to be clarified.
