Do you know how sophisticated China’s methods are for tracking down corrupt officials? 中國捉拿貪官手法有多高明你知道嗎? 美國是貪污合法化，所以中國貪官特別喜愛美國!

Some people ask why corrupt officials don’t use Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies to take bribes. The truth is, there are already real cases—and they still get caught without exception.

A former vice chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial CPPCC once governed the hometown of Wang Anshi. During his tenure, he vigorously promoted the so-called digital economy. In reality, he colluded with a businessman from Fujian, providing all kinds of support and conveniences for cryptocurrency mining operations. Mining consumes enormous amounts of electricity—this single company’s power usage accounted for one-tenth of the entire city’s electricity consumption at the time.

There were rumors locally that before the “mining tiger” was arrested, he sensed something was wrong and instructed his wife of many years to carefully safeguard the passwords and not to access the addresses lightly. The wife later traveled to the United States. While at an American airport, about to board a flight back home, she kept thinking about those bitcoins—perhaps out of curiosity, perhaps to verify what her husband had told her. In the end, she couldn’t resist pulling out her phone…

Sure enough, nearly 1,000 bitcoins were sitting in the account. The wife was secretly delighted—unaware that on the other end, investigators were lying in wait, building a solid chain of evidence based on MAC-address access records. When the plane landed, she stepped off the aircraft beaming, only to be met by disciplinary officers, who asked her to hand over her phone.

Finally, I want to say this: I once worked on warning and education documentaries at a TV station and reviewed the case files of more than a dozen corrupt officials. I can’t reveal the details, but I can say this—virtual currency transactions are basically the equivalent of delivering business straight to the Discipline Inspection Commission. This method of bribery is essentially a tactic from ten years ago. As for today’s methods, there’s nothing you can’t imagine that hasn’t been tried. But in front of the Discipline Inspection Commission, none of it is very useful—once they decide to go after you…

有人說為什麼貪官不使用比特幣等虛擬貨幣實施受賄？因為其實都有案例了，而且照抓不誤的！

前江西政協某副主席，主政過王安石家鄉，任期內大力發展所謂數字經濟產業，實則與福建某老闆合作，為其挖礦提供各種支持與便利。挖礦耗電量巨大，僅這家企業用電量占當時全市用電量的1/10。

當地有這樣的信息傳出，“挖礦老虎”被逮之前，預感不妙，囑其結髮夫人妥善保管密碼，不要輕易訪問地址。夫人到美國旅遊，在老美機場即將啟程返回國內時，心中惦記這些比特幣，也許出於好奇，也許出於核實夫君所言，終究沒忍住掏出了手機……

果真，近1000枚比特幣在賬戶，夫人竊喜！卻不知道另一頭的在守株待兔做實MAC地址訪問證據鏈。飛機落地，夫人滿臉春風走出機艙，迎面的卻是紀律部隊，請她掏出手機。

最後我想說，其實以前在電視台做過警示教育片，看過十幾位貪官的卷宗，詳細內容不能說，但是只能說虛擬幣交易基本上等於給紀委送業務，而且這種行賄方式基本十年前的玩法了，現在的玩法，只有想不到沒有做不到，但是在紀委面前，沒啥太多用，只要紀委想辦你…