Someone Just Emptied Out a Bitcoin Wallet With $964,000,000 In It

[Nevilledog]

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Someone Just Emptied Out a Bitcoin Wallet With $964,000,000 In It

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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.
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9:08 PM · Nov 4, 2020

[samnsara]

1. it wasnt me! gawd what a haul!

[C_U_L8R]

2. Someone will be the last person standing... with a pile of useless bits

[brush]

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]

6. 2 fanny packs?

[LizBeth]

3. Check the slush fund in the White House. He had the movers in today, too.

[Thekaspervote]

15. My thoughts exactly

[3Hotdogs]

4. Will it be on Fox and Friends tomorrow?

[dweller]

7. I Hereby claim

dibs ...

✌🏻

[MissB]

8. Well played

[Nevilledog]

9. Too late....I called dibs and no backsies.

[dweller]

11. You claimed 2 fannypacks

the rest is mine Mine MINE !!!



✌🏻

[Nevilledog]

12. Fuck

[AnnaLee]

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]

13. Convert it to useful cash

and stash it in the Caymans. The allusion is Trump is preparing to depart the White House.

[AmericanCanuck]

14. Trump is moving money

[muriel_volestrangler]

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.
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On Thursday, US Attorney David Anderson confirmed that the officials had seized the crypto-currency assets.
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"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