Bitcoin Heist: The Government Wallet Shock

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In the pale glow of screens, where numbers drift like frost on a windowpane, the tale begins as if whispered by winter itself. On-chain sleuth ZachXBT has laid bare a thief who slipped from the shadows with more than forty million, a fever dream of crypto plucked from the government’s cold trove. The White House offers a cautious nod, a diplomat’s sigh, saying only that the matter is being looked into, and whether the Bitcoin holdings felt the thief’s touch remains a question for the wind to answer.

How the Thief Carved a River of Coins from the Government’s Crypto Wallets

In a brief post on X, ZachXBT points to John Daghita, known in certain circles as Lick, who carried off over forty million from the government’s seizure addresses. His father, it is said, runs CMDSS-Command Services & Support-an enterprise with a living contract to help the U.S. Marshals in the handling and disposal of seized crypto. Yet how John slipped from kin to kleptomaniac remains as murky as a riverbed after snow, a riddle with no answer in the weather’s own handwriting.

The CMDSS account, its website, and its LinkedIn all vanished after the revelation, like shadows uncoiled from a doorway. Earlier, ZachXBT had already flagged John, noting a wallet once flexing 23 million-a number large enough to embarrass the coins themselves.

He observed that this wallet carried the weight of more than 90 million in suspected thefts from the U.S. Government in 2024 and other unnameable victims from late 2025 into December 2025. John himself flashed this wallet during a heated exchange with another actor, Dritan Kapplani Jr., in a group chat about who bore the heavier purse-a moment when the room filled with the quiet clang of digits arguing about who had more funds.

The Source Of The Funds

Following John’s messages, ZachXBT traced the money to a wallet (0xc7a2) that in March 2024 received 24.9 million from a U.S. Government address tied to the Bitfinex hack seizure-an act of plunder dressed in legal garb. John’s own wallet (0xd8bc), flaunted during the quarrel, is said to be linked to 63 million in inflows from suspected victims and government-seizure addresses in the fourth quarter of last year.

John promptly scrubbed NFT usernames from his Telegram, altered his screen name, and watched the digital world adjust its gaze elsewhere. It is worth noting that the investigator identified John as John Daghitia after rumors swirled that the thief might be the same man arrested in September 2025, though the reasons for that detention remain as elusive as a receipt from a ghost shop.

Is The U.S. Government’s BTC At Risk?

White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt confirmed in an X post that an investigation is underway and that an update would follow. The cadence of this affair takes on a certain irony, as if a policy thunderstorm had learned to hum, given that President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing all U.S. government Bitcoin holdings toward a Strategic BTC Reserve. A twist of fate that makes the ledger feel like a conspiratorial letter from history itself.

From the timeline of these seizures, it seems John’s shadow touched some of these assets after the executive order, with portions of the theft occurring under the Biden administration. The government’s own holdings remain shrouded in mystery, though BiTBo data places them at 198,012 BTC, like a statue carved from numbers and patience.

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2026-01-27 20:12