"Welcome to Video" raid leads to 337 arrests due to Bitcoin Exchanges that use strong KYC
The darkweb child sexual exploitation video site, "Welcome to Video", first came onto Law Enforcement's attention as a result of a case in the UK, where a geophysicist Matthew Falder was arrested. When the National Crime Agency was looking into his hard drive, they found he had been a member of "Welcome to Video" which at the time used the dark web address mt3plrzdiyqf6jim .onion. Anyone visiting that website recently would have seen this banner instead: Law enforcement actually got the website through a silly webmaster error. One of the webpages on the website linked some of its component files by the server's IP address instead of its onion URL address. The IP address, 121.185.153.45, was a Korea Telecom address. They got the owner's address details and were able to confirm his identity. After establishing undercover addresses, searches on the website for some common child sexual exploitation searches, and received indications that there