>If you were the gubment and you wanted to maybe trace these fuckers would you maybe try to chum the bitcoin waters to see what wallets are used for any liquidation of the bitcoins later?<p>The address of the auction is public. Sending more bitcoins to the address doesn't make sense. The only way it would make sense to send Bitcoin to the address is if you waited until the Bitcoins had been spent, and send a bit of dust to the address, in the hope that their wallet spent it along with some other Bitcoins.<p>The more likely explanation is that somebody is messing with the people observing the auction. By my count, there are only two serious bids that follow the rules set out by the shadow brokers.