When Ross Ulbricht This past weekend, a $ 31 million bitcoin donation of an unknown source saw many observers as more than a very nice welcome home gift. Rumors swore that the Creator of the Silk Road, less than five months after receiving a waiver from Donald Trump, who saved him from a lifetime in prison, sent him a herd of his disabled criminal returns to his days of the Dark Web’s first black market more than a decade before.

Now, cryptocurrency inspirators say they arrived at a strange explanation: The money was originally not from Ulbricht, and did not come from the Silk Road. Instead, they suspect that it is from a different Long-unbinding Dark Web Black Market: Alphabay.

The crypto uplifting firm chain alignment tells Wired that, based on blockchain analysis, it originated to Ulbricht the origin of the 300 Bitcoins on Sunday, to someone involved in Alphabay, a dark web market that sold a wide range of drugs and cyberskiminal contrapels from 2014 to 2017, according to the FBI.

Chain alignment says the funds seemed to emerge from Alphabay around 2016 and 2017. Given the amount of donation, chain alignment indicates that it would be possible of someone who acted as a large -scale seller on the market. “We have reasonable grounds to suspect that these funds have arisen in Alphabay,” said Phil Larratt, director of investigations at ChainaSis and a former official at the UK’s national crime agency. “If you look at the amount, it would indicate that they were in the early days of someone who may have been a seller on Alphabay.”

Wired issued Ulbricht for comment on the origin of the donation via contacts during the Free Ross campaign that posted for its waiver but did not immediately get an answer.

Before the chain maker ‘finds that the $ 31 million donation is evident from Alphabay, the independent crypto tracking investigator known as ZachXBT, has already placed his own findings on his account that the money did not come from the Silk Road. ZachXBT found that, despite the use of the donor of multiple bitcoin mixers taking user coins and returning others to darken their route on the blockchain, he was able to detect the funds to an address linked to the chain instrument’s reactor as an illegal activity. This analysis suggested that the money was a ‘legitimate donation, but not legal funds,’ Zachxbt wrote in a text message to Wired.

ZachXBT also found that the same individual who controlled the funds, other cryptocurrency in a scholarship in small, distributed quantities, rather than in a single amount, suggesting that he or she may have tried to prevent them from being seized or marked – another sign that the money might come from criminal origin. “Use of multiple mixers, distribution of CEX deposits, etc.,” Zachxbt writes to Wired, using the term CEX to mean a centralized exchange, “This is usually done if you try to get illegal funds frozen.”