It is possible because the blockchain is public, anyone can track the transactions, despite not having a name linked to a wallet, in this case he left traces and was caught, which in the end is what always happens to those who decide to go to the world of crime.

That's really possible, and all of that can be seen in the blockchain history itself—all the addresses that made a transaction deposit or withdrawal. From that address, it can also be determined where it came from, whether it is from a centralized or decentralized exchange platform, and sometimes it is from the gambling platform here at the casino.

I just can't determine whose name; I just don't know if from the exchange they can determine which person did this transaction; that's what I'm not sure how or if it is possible.

Envisioning the digital tech deeply the thoughts of privacy have died away for wants to track criminals. The privacy never stayed, staring at the responses above me. Not Trying to complicate the thread, was there ever a certain day where the network was private and people staying truly anonymous and untracked?

People are anonymous in the blockchain, only your transactions are tracked, no name or identity is attached to your wallet, therefore no one knows who own a particular wallet unless if it is a centralized exchange wallet. According to the overall story, Jimmy was caught after sending $800 worth of Bitcoin to centralized KYC exchange, which means since he stole the Bitcoin, his bitcoin wallet address was under watch list, but nobody knows the owner of the wallet until he made a transaction to a centralized exchange wallet that reveled his identity because if the KYC he submitted in the exchange. This is another reason to avoid CEX.

People like that usually make mistakes along the way. The owner of Silk Road himself used an email with and his real name and surname online, which gave him away. This Jimmy guy reported some of his BTC being stolen, which raised suspicions about where he got that kind of money from. If you don't leave your own identification info, BTC can't be traced back to you. But usually, people aren't careful enough, they leave a bunch of digital footprints and then can be deanonymized.

Didn't this also lead to the arrest of the founder of Silk Road Ross Ulbricht or it's a different incident because if I remember correctly, he's got captured the same way too right or was it something about using a library computer? I believe that the reason that he's not careful is because he thought that he's gotten away with it and that he's already like an innocent so he didn't care too much when he called about the stolen bitcoins that was stolen from him too which is an twist of fate for him, getting arrested because of karma.

It's very possible. With the right resources, the security agency can just keep watching the movement of the coins in the address. They don't know the owner of the address so they can't make an arrest, but the moment he made that transfer to a KYC exchange, he revealed himself. He submitted his details to the exchange so they know who he is, where he lives, what he does for a living, his age, and his face. They know every single thing about him.
He must be a novice or he's just plain stupid because he must have known that sending that Bitcoin to a CEX exposed him. It's a good thing he got caught because 800k is a lot of money.

I think the reason why it is linked to that person is because he sent it to an exchange where KYC is required and the BTC sent to the exchange can be traced since it is public. The owner is already linked to the btc that he deposited on the exchange even if it's not all the btc that this person got from silk road. There could be a chance where he didn't get caught if he didn't leave anything that can link to his identity. This is why many people avoid using exchange that requires KYC to buy and sell crypto.

There is no rocket science in this, Bitcoin transactions are available in the public ledger and are traceable through the blockchain, and if you have an account at a KYC-enabled centralized exchange and you send some Bitcoin from your wallet to it, even if you change addresses, the chain of transactions will allow anyone to reach your wallet address and check how many Bitcoins you have in your wallet. That is probably how he was traced by the FEDs.

He probably wasn't smart enough or didn't think it through, otherwise, he could find a way around it and never get caught like that. They wouldn't be able to find him even if they had found the wallet containing the Bitcoin because your Bitcoin wallet doesn't have an IP address attached to it or anything that can give your location to someone.

It is possible because the movement of the bitcoin was traced from the stolen $50,000 bitcoin and any unit of bitcoin that leave the wallet nor the address was tracked down so whenever location the coins are transfered would be seen but the only different will be the owner of the address will not be known but since the person who stolen the wallet was know and the bitcoin was moved from the hodling wallet to a destination wallet the the person that compromised the wallet must held responsible.