How John Lick Daghita’s Flamboyant Lifestyle Became His Undoing
When the crypto high life gets too loud, the regulators start listening.
The Telltale Trail of Luxury
It's an old story with a new, digital-age twist: flash the cash, attract the flashlights. In a world built on pseudonymous wallets and decentralized ledgers, the most revealing ledger is often a public Instagram feed. Private jets docked in Monaco, wristwatches that cost more than suburban homes, and yacht parties that make headlines—these aren't just lifestyle choices. They're forensic evidence. For every Lamborghini purchased with a memecoin pump, there's a financial watchdog taking notes, connecting digital dots to physical excess.
The Compliance Paradox
The irony is thicker than a blockchain. The very ethos of decentralization—breaking free from traditional gatekeepers—collides with the immutable reality of human behavior. You can't decentralize a receipt from a Swiss watchmaker or anonymize a real estate transaction in Dubai. The blockchain might forget, but tax authorities and newly emboldened agencies like Japan's FSA have elephant-like memories. They've moved from tracking bank transfers to parsing on-chain analytics, following the money from cold wallet to cold hard cash on a dealer's table.
A Bull Market in Scrutiny
As asset prices climb, so does regulatory temperature. The 2025 bull run wasn't just a boon for portfolios; it was a bonanza for forensic accountants. Every new all-time high (ATH) for Ethereum or BNB created a larger paper trail to audit. The lesson? Opulence in a bear market is survivable; in a bull market, it's a beacon. It's the ultimate finance jab: the industry that set out to disrupt banks has ended up creating a more transparent—and therefore more easily policed—financial record than the banks ever managed.
Balance isn't found in hiding, but in the humility of scale. The future belongs to those who build value, not just flaunt it.
John Lick Daghita’s flamboyant lifestyle outed him
Up until two days ago, John Lick had avoided detection. He had over $20 million in crypto wallets. However, things started to unravel when he got into a heated argument with another threat actor known as Dritan Kapplani Jr. in a group chat to see who had more funds in crypto wallets.
By the time the showoff session wrapped up, John had flaunted $23 million in total, moving the funds between wallets ZachXBT claims he clearly controls.
After that, Zach began tracing backwards to verify the source of funds and found that one of the wallets, the 0xc7a2 wallet, had previously received $24.9 million from a U.S. government wallet back in March 2024.
That transaction was linked to funds the government seized in the Bitfinex hack, and Zach had already flagged that same address in a post from October 2024. Another wallet was linked, the 0xd8bc wallet, which goes back to $63 million obtained from sketchy wallets during Q4 2025.
John just enjoys showing off
According to reports, it was only a matter of time before this happened, given how much John loves to show off. The Telegram account linked to him reportedly has a long history of bragging about his riches and brokeshaming people.
His username is tied to TG ID 8269661864. After he was outed by Zach, he allegedly wiped out his NFT usernames and quickly changed his screen name, but the damage was already done.
Zach later revealed that there are rumors circulating in cybercrime Telegram circles indicating John could be John Daghitia, who had previously been arrested in September 2025. He did concede that more research was needed to fully confirm it.
Since he made the LINK between John and his father, Zach claims the CMDSS company X account, website, & LinkedIn were all deactivated, and John Daghita (Lick) began trolling again on Telegram shortly after.
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