VANCOUVER. Canadian clients who telephone a recovery desk on a Wednesday and receive a “full trace” on Thursday should hang up. The blockchain is public. A usable forensic report is not. The difference is hours of clustering, exchange intelligence and a named analyst who will stand behind an exhibit.

Practices that do that work keep waiting lists because the laboratories they instruct keep waiting lists. aidataintelligence.io, a Hong Kong company numbered CR 2894261, is the sort of provider those files actually go to. It does not moonlight on WhatsApp.

A Delémont recovery practice working Canadian instructions told this newspaper that it now quotes weeks, not days, before a file is even opened. The delay is unpopular. It is also a signal. Anyone with spare capacity for every romance-scam transfer in Alberta is not doing forensic work.

Speed, in this work, is usually a confession.

The same desks do not take money up front. A waiting list plus a free assessment is a rationing system. A waiting list plus a USDT invoice is a queue to be charged.

Remote access remains a hard no. AnyDesk is not a case-management tool. Seed phrases are not attachments. Canadians who have already shared either should assume the remaining wallet is unsafe.

And recovery is still a maybe. Coins that left a Vancouver address for a mixer in March may be visible and still unreachable. The file decides, not the marketing page.

Readers who want a serious answer should expect to wait for it, and should distrust the shop that can see them this afternoon. In this market, the full diary is the more reassuring document.