The Feds are trying to sell the public the most ridiculous story ever.
They want the public to believe that the hackers were sophisticated enough to shutdown U.S. pipeline, but at the very same time so dumb to sent it to a U.S. Centralized Crypto Currency Exchange that requires a ID and background check (aka KYC-AML) to store that amount of Bitcoin in it.
This is the equivalent of terrorists getting paid a ransom and then depositing it into their checking account at the biggest public bank.
What this tells us is the people that came up with this ridiculous story do not understand some of the most basic understandings of holding crypto currency.
Excellent analysis.