There are a few local Bitcoin apps and sites. I don't think it would scale well for the FBI to have a sting on every Bitcoin to cash transaction, but would be good to have one on suspected Bitcoin wallets. Although most savvy cybercriminals at this point should be able to mix their dirty coins enough to avoid such a trap.
My guess would be that Microsoft tipped them off. I couldn't find in the compliant where the IRS or Secret Service got involved, but it does say that Microsoft Fraud Investigators discovered the fraud and fired him.
Yeah... Of course! To join this marketing alliance, Google decided, more than a year ago, to demand that CF sever ties with exactly one of their customers.
Apart from how wacky that conspiracy theory is: Do you believe you can devalue Cloudflare's stated motivation by replacing it with a financial motive instead?
Because it would seem to me that your theory would just shift that moral motivation to Google, no?
Unless, of course, Google themselves are in turn pressured by some even more powerful group. Who's that? George Soros? Hillary Clinton?
I fell for that once. I'm embarrassed to admit that I thought she was a spy for a couple of minutes until I picked up more context. I'm sure I looked super disappointed for the rest of that conversation.
