IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WAS 10,774 AND 9697
TLDR- EVIDENCE SUGGESTS MCAFEES DEADMAN SWITCH WAS ACTIVATED ON MONDAY, WHEN HE LEARNED OF THE EXTRADITION
This is by far the most complicated set of data I've tried to break down so bear with me here, allow me the attempt to explain. Every transaction on the WHACKD blockchain is open sourced and you too can download and analyze every single one of them.
There's a lot here but I discovered something very cool.
Initialization
When McAfee launched the WHACKD blockchain, you see the entire first month's worth of transfers into roughly 31k accounts in the exact same amount of 10,774 coins. This dissemination of coins happened 24hrs a day consecutively into various accounts and would have been McAfee populating his blockchain with different users. Most of these accounts lay completely dormant- there are roughly 23,000 accounts that other than the original transfer of 10,744 coins into the account, have no other activity..
Phase 2
What you also notice mixed into the first months of transfers is a lot of these accounts now containing 10,744 coins sent the entirety of the balance in their accounts to other select accounts. These transfers were made to the tune of 9,697 coins (10,744 minus the 10% burn rate). What is interesting about these accounts is that only a select few were chosen. After 6 months worth of this activity, roughly only 280 other accounts had been recipients of payments. You now have what I would term 'controller' accounts that are 1 layer removed from the initialization. After analysis on the first 100 of these 'controller' accounts I discovered, a pattern emerged. MOST of these ~280 accounts ended up sending all of the coins they contained into a SINGLE specific account- WHICH JUST BECAME ACTIVE WITHIN THE LAST 24 HOURS. Some transferred their coins directly there, other accounts used multiple layers of transfers- however 2-3 hops later they all ended up in this 1 SINGLE specific account:
0xc3c12a9e63e466a3ba99e07f3ef1f38b8b81ae1b
https://etherscan.io/token/0xcf8335727b776d190f9d15a54e6b9b9348439eee?a=0xc3c12a9e63e466a3ba99e07f3ef1f38b8b81ae1b
^^ This account is 20th largest holder and where a majority of the coins from the 'controller' accounts ended up. It also received influxes of 9697 in the beginning, and was the 4th account to receive such payments. It is also one of several accounts marked as 'contract' which makes it special. No clue why. Cryptofags step up.
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