I posted on here almost a year ago that bitstamp was just a government honeypot and that it was only a matter a time before they ran off with people's coins.

Like 99% of the time - I was right.

 

How did they ran off? They've reopened and will have to pay that back one way or another. As far as we know there are no limits on withdrawal, so users are not directly affected.

Your right-rate just dropped to 98% 

Can a coinmixer confiscate those coins and return to Bitstamp? The only problem is that nobody will use that mixer any more.

The coins can't go into any large exchange because of KYC policies. Perpetrators need to use supply IDs for those exchanges, he could use a fake identity and a throw away bank account. He probably needs a hundred identities to be able to sell 18k btc undetected. He is most likely going to mix 10 to 20 btc every week until he has finished will all of them. Too time consuming to trace

Wouldn't help. The hacker could just hide behind TOR or VPNs.

it's funny. funds are still deposited there:  https://blockchain.info/address/1L2JsXHPMYuAa9ugvHGLwkdstCPUDemNCf

the "hacker" made another 50K. ))

By not doing that, a coinmixer would greatly increase his credibility. By doing that, he would run out of business. 

Having said that, the hacker has to be absolutely sure that the mixer is not keeping logs. He could be very easily exposed to blackmail.

The hacker will mix them slowly and bitmixer would not give away the bitcoins because it would be against the ethic of their business.

How do you think he will mix and cash out? Would he cash out to his real name. Maybe through bitstamp!

wouldnt help anyway because its a decentralized network.
For example, if you look on blockchain.info as to what IP
relayed them the transaction, that is only what blockchain
is seeing.  Other nodes might have had a different IP relay
it, and neither would be necessarily seeing the first relay.