Suspicious $4m Bitcoin Transfer After Brit’s Pattaya Death

8 minutes ago, wavodavo said:

Woops brain fare there I meant to say Monaco.

Good job you did not say Monaco which only has 19 turns, which I have been around in a horse and buggy.

Lesson 1 - don't tell your wife you have 4 mil in bitcoin

Lesson 2 - don't use an F1 analogy unless you are total fan 😅

2 hours ago, Bannoi said:

Had an 18 month prison sentence hanging over him then after he dies money gets transferred from his crypto.

Maybe he's not dead it's all a scam and he's paying his accomplices off.

2 hours ago, Bannoi said:

Had an 18 month prison sentence hanging over him then after he dies money gets transferred from his crypto.

Maybe he's not dead it's all a scam and he's paying his accomplices off.

So are you suggesting they scrape his left 😷overs from the pavement and do a DNA test?

10 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

The legal team for his former partner, Ploy, has disputed aspects of the claim

Call me superstitious, but I would never marry someone named Ploy.

C'mon! Do so many people really "fall" from balconies?

I think not!

Keep your stash in cash or in gold well hiden a a decent swiss bank safe or account and don't brag around. That the only advice any sensible individual would need to consider.

I really need to put some money into this bitcoin stuff. Everything about it looks so wonderful.

so if someone has a few million in crypto and they die and never reveal their passcodes or holdings to anyone what happens to the $?

Does it just sit there for eternity or ?

1 hour ago, pomchop said:

so if someone has a few million in crypto and they die and never reveal their passcodes or holdings to anyone what happens to the $?

Does it just sit there for eternity or ?

Yes unless it was on a hardware ledger then it can be cracked as the key is inside the hardware. If it would be otherwise, all encryption of anything in the world, would be failed. That basically means nuclear war. Don't be fooled by using such hardware wallets and thinking it is safe on it's own. Some USA youtuber pops them open daily, from people that forgot or found one.

This is the same issue with smartphones where they hack them from the kernel (the hardware of the phone), that makes all encryption after useless. That's how they can spy you. Same for your internet traffic, that's why they hooked everyone on commercial VPNs. Or the fact that your sim card itself is a computer.

Thailand is notorious for this as they still use the old cellphone networks that allow to know your realtime location just by entering a phone number, hence they all wanted it registered. It's pegasus wet dream. What you should really wonder on that end is why the police not checks which phones were in that condo at that time, specially those who are potential suspects. They can do this.

In terms of getting it anonymous out that would just require a visit to a chinese or russian and be history too. You could easily cash out 10M USD in a few days, anywhere on the world. That's why the north koreans love it so much too.

In russia it not even a crime to hack foreigners abroad. Same for israeli's. Chinese take care the finances, they even do it for the cartel.

Anyway knowing it happened in Pattaya, with that money involved, i know the answer already.

1 hour ago, pomchop said:

so if someone has a few million in crypto and they die and never reveal their passcodes or holdings to anyone what happens to the $?

Does it just sit there for eternity or ?

Archeologists excavating ancient roman towns report frequently finding gold coins hidden in the walls of residences. Some things never change.

I'll bet somebody looked over the railing at him and said "He was British this morning but he's Finnish now."

The ex-wife Ploy and her lawyers seem to imply Griffiths' family must have stolen the money and tried to frame her:

Joel was asked how he would have known the bitcoin was missing unless he had access to the wallet.

Ploy’s lawyer Mona Mankong said: “The funds were transferred to a mystery location. Nobody knows where they went or who did it.

“With everything that has happened, it’s very suspicious.

“Quentin was very experienced financially and knew how to protect his assets. Only someone very close to him would know his passwords and security keys.

“This is a large amount of money and it should be returned to Quentin’s estate.

“How does the complainant know the exact amount that was taken? Does he himself have access to the crypto wallet?”

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38956645/asos-quentin-griffiths-death-bitcoin/

But this is either shocking ignorance from a professional law firm, or a deliberate lie. All Bitcoin transactions are publicly visible to everyone. It is not "encrypted" in this sense.

"Bitcoin is pseudonymous, with funds linked to addresses, not real-world identities. While the owners of these addresses are not directly identified, all transactions are public on the blockchain."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Privacy_and_fungibility

So this case gets more and more suspicious. Perhaps UK should push a bit harder to ensure the safety of its citizens?