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Someone Just Emptied Out a Bitcoin Wallet With $964,000,000 In It
Ahem... @thespybrief
Someone Just Emptied Out a Bitcoin Wallet With $964,000,000 In It
It's not yet clear if a hacker made off with a gigantic payday, or if the wallet's secretive and long-dormant owner just came out of retirement.
vice.com
9:08 PM · Nov 4, 2020
The Editor Devil
@fairchild01
Someone Just Emptied Out a Bitcoin Wallet With $964,000,000 In It
Ahem... @thespybrief
Someone Just Emptied Out a Bitcoin Wallet With $964,000,000 In It
It's not yet clear if a hacker made off with a gigantic payday, or if the wallet's secretive and long-dormant owner just came out of retirement.
vice.com
9:08 PM · Nov 4, 2020
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Someone Just Emptied Out a Bitcoin Wallet With $964,000,000 In It (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Nov 2020
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samnsara
(17,615 posts)1. it wasnt me! gawd what a haul!
C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)2. Someone will be the last person standing... with a pile of useless bits
brush
(53,764 posts)5. That almost sounds like a reverse Ponzi scheme. The first one to get out...
gets the money.
I don't get how pulling down nearly a billion dollars can go unnoticed by authorities. Where are you going transfer such a large sum to without it being alerted on?
Nevilledog
(51,064 posts)6. 2 fanny packs?
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)3. Check the slush fund in the White House. He had the movers in today, too.
Thekaspervote
(32,754 posts)15. My thoughts exactly
3Hotdogs
(12,366 posts)4. Will it be on Fox and Friends tomorrow?
dweller
(23,625 posts)7. I Hereby claim
dibs ...
✌🏻
Nevilledog
(51,064 posts)9. Too late....I called dibs and no backsies.
dweller
(23,625 posts)11. You claimed 2 fannypacks
the rest is mine Mine MINE !!!
✌🏻
AnnaLee
(1,035 posts)10. I'm clueless
What do you do with the dump from a bitcoin wallet? What is a wallet; is that like a money market savings account. When it dumps, is it still bitcoins or does it become regular currency?
pfitz59
(10,346 posts)13. Convert it to useful cash
and stash it in the Caymans. The allusion is Trump is preparing to depart the White House.
AmericanCanuck
(1,102 posts)14. Trump is moving money
muriel_volestrangler
(101,295 posts)16. Bitcoin: $1bn seized from Silk Road account by US government
More than $1bn (£772m) in Bitcoin linked to the notorious Silk Road website has been seized by the US Department of Justice (DoJ).
Earlier this week, crypto-currency watchers noticed about 70,000 bitcoins being moved from an account believed to be linked to the illicit marketplace.
...
On Thursday, US Attorney David Anderson confirmed that the officials had seized the crypto-currency assets.
...
"Today's forfeiture complaint answers this open question at least in part. $1bn of these criminal proceeds are now in the United States' possession."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54833130
Earlier this week, crypto-currency watchers noticed about 70,000 bitcoins being moved from an account believed to be linked to the illicit marketplace.
...
On Thursday, US Attorney David Anderson confirmed that the officials had seized the crypto-currency assets.
...
"Today's forfeiture complaint answers this open question at least in part. $1bn of these criminal proceeds are now in the United States' possession."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54833130