This time the dumbass sent Diego the public key or the wallet address. Diego smiled. He used the term dumbass in endearment. What silly goose would send their private key to a stranger over email?

He made sure it was still the same dumbass. He could tell it was, because the first transaction into it was all of the funds from the previous wallet. The same for which the dumbass had revealed the key to prior.

Diego could've taken it all. In the past he would've. That could've paid for two nice trips to Thailand. Just 14 months ago he had been dead broke. Worrying about where his next 2000 

calories

was going to come from.

Now he was at the tail of his 

life

. Not because of disease or age. In fact he was less than 30. It was a shame, because he should be expecting to live another fifty or so years. But instead he would soon be gone. All the money in his 

bitcoin

wallet no longer mattered. It had meant everything before. Or so he thought.

But now he knew it was all illusion.

The only thing that mattered now hilariously was this dumbass. And how his dumb life was about to change once he sent all of his 

BTC

to the new wallet. Diego just hoped that the dumbass would be safer about keeping this new wallet secure.

Diego had been careful about not allowing the agents to trace who the owner of the wallet that he would donate his funds to was. Bitcoin wallets were inherently anonymous. However, once the agents had Diego's laptop, they would be able to trace through the 

email

s who the person was in real life. To prevent this Diego had purchased a laptop using cash. He had then created a new email address totally unrelated to him. Now that he had the dumbass's public address, Diego would throw the laptop away in a remote trash far away from Diego's place. Or more accurately the crushed pieces of the laptop.

This way the agents would never be able to connect Diego to the dumbass. And the money would be safe. Presumably.