When Flexing Goes Very, Very Wrong🥶

This one’s wild. A threat actor going by John got baited into one of those pointless “band for band” flex games… and somehow thought it was a good idea to live-share his wallets. Yeah. That happened.

Once the addresses were out in the open, on-chain sleuths didn’t waste a second. According to tracing work by #zachxbt , those wallets line up with some seriously heavy stuff ... large suspected thefts, and even funds connected to a U.S. government seizure tied back to Bitfinex. Not exactly pocket change nor exactly clean either.

All because of ego and a moment of “watch this.” Crypto never fails to remind people: the chain remembers everything, and flexing is expensive.

Wallet that kicked off the mess:
0x8924B17fD7512953949DE703a7C97484E66E0Bec

Note: news source Zachxbt.