Cryptocurrencies

[morbidpete]

btw the fees for crypto currency are insanely high especially btc, I needed like 100 bucks worth of btc and the fee was around 60 bucks …
so I switched to different one

once I win a lottery I'm going to build a warehouse in Arctic full of mining machines and hopefully I will make some money LOL

What exchange did you use? I have transferred over 10k with coinbase over the past 2 years and only pay around 3%. You were taken for a ride.

[Philip]

I think if you actually use the exchange (GDAX) to convert your crypto to USD instead of Coinbase, the fee is minuscule, less than 1% depending on the order type.. That's what I've done.

[morbidpete]

What exchange did you use? I have transferred over 10k with coinbase over the past 2 years and only pay around 3%. You were taken for a ride.

Almost forgot tax season lol. Took a 20% hit on cap gains tax for my crypto trades on my taxes this year. Can't even file yet because the cap gains form wont be out until the 31st

[Arleverett]

Good morning, I was wondering if you could help me with finding the owner of a bitcoin wallet ? I was scammed out of around 25k unfortunately this is impacting me financially and I may end up homeless. I used bitcoin who's who and I see the transactions, but I don't know how to read the transaction codes. I found this web site after looking at Dan Kaminsky's black Hat 2011 talk referencing slide 11. I have the name of the website Climbmeta.com and Swiftmetatrader.com. I have this persons 2 bitcoin wallet. I have reported this to FTC and several other places. But, without a true identity of the person I don't have much to go on. Thank you for any help or information you can provide me with.
Angela

[Philip]

First thing to do is to document everything about your communications with the person/company and the transactions, including your history of holding the crypto, their IP addresses, email headers, etc.
Second, contact law enforcement with all the evidence you've collected. Also contact the cryptocurrency exchange or online wallet you used for the transactions.
I don't think there is much else you can do, most crypto addresses are anonymous, with some exceptions (mainly custodian addresses at exchanges that have their customers' real names and info).
You can trace transactions if you have the BTC addresses here: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/mempool/btc Scammers will move the money out of the recipient address fast though, so it may be a mute point and still can't tell you their identity. Even knowing their identity may not help you, if they live in a different country.