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Bitfinex is begging again, what do you think whether the hacker will bite the bait?


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It cost him nothing but a curious mind, so I don't see why he would not at least check it out.
At least that's what I would do.

assuming the hacker isn't bitfinex themselves, he'd be a little crazy to get in touch. any contact opens up the possibility of being located somehow. if the fbi is involved they'll have some sharp people on the case. i'm not so sure the fbi is involved though.

Options seem to be:

1. Stay quiet, keep all the money, chances of being found at this point (they seem to have left few footprints) are very slim
2. Speak up, return most of the money, increase chance of being found by making a stupid mistake.

Doesn't seem that the second option makes much sense, and Bitfinex's plead seems incredibly desperate. If the hackers were white hat and intending on returning the coins as just a lesson in security, it would have happened by now.

Bfx still  have control over those coins.... To think they were "hacked"  by an outsider is absurd....

This is an interesting scenario but I would be surprised if there was any cooperation from the supposed hacker(s).

Doubtful that they'll get contacted by the guy in a serious manner. The guy is likely already keeping a low profile and living either slightly richer than he was before or he's going full-blown rich in some far away place, never looking back.

They're super unlikely to get their money back.

fbi has taken over the case because a unnamed user has filed a complaint that he lost $1.3 million from the hack,he is an unlucky individual who stored that much value worth of bitcoin in an exchange.since bitfinex is located outside US and since it is bitcoin related i dont know how the FBI is going to process this case,bitfinex is trying their best to convince the hacker to return the coins which is highly unlikely that he is going to appear again with the hack claims because that will change the hackers life if he plan to contact them

I think this will not happen. when we get that much money, only 1% likely to be returned. but if this is true then of course there will be changes to the price of bitcoin. bitcoin prices will certainly increase.

this is indeed strange, reading the first line of that article i thought it may be just a public stunt showing they are doing all they can to get the money back and also increasing the security of their exchange site but the rest of the article is so weird when they are begging the hacker to reveal himself for a bug bounty when he has 120K bitcoin :D

after stealing the BTC that much, I guess they will not be contacted dai bitfinex again. Well, if they reach him, they will likely continue to be tracked until they get caught. but every thief will definitely not return to the same place if the goals they have achieved. yeah, but they really are a great hacker

any sane people won't do that. unless if they cant live with the guilt. But with money, there's no guilt. I might be wrong.

Not likely, He does not need to contact bitfinex his hack was successful and has got the money now why would he want to give it back.

Seems weird, as we know that the hacker won't take this bait because they're not stupid. This is either the bitfinex who's stupid to think that the hacker would do it, or they just do this to pretend that they're not the guilty one.

If he is answering he would be even more stupid then the buttfinex admins.
Fact.

This actually makes me think that (if not an inside job) they have no idea how the hack occurred and don't know what to patch up to make the site secure.

If it really was a hack (which I don't beleive), and the hacker has no moral problems with stealing that many coins, then these coins will never be returned, and the hacker in question will never contact Bitfinex. Why should he? He is filthy rich. Again, I don't believe it's a hacker that stole the coins.


Bitfinex is just acting dumb. They know exactly what happened as I strongly believe it was an inside job. It's an attempt to distract attention pointing towards themselves. Only, their attempt to do so is very amateurish. Either way, plenty of reasons to stay away from that exchange.

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in 99.999% of the time it is an inside job, or even worse, it is a lie. which means they could have just simply moved the funds to a new wallet and say we were hacked.
in which case there is no hacker to contact back and this attempt is only a public stunt.

here is my opinion. hacker is part by two side.

1. good hacker.
2. bad hacker.

good hacker will do their skills to test security of the site and if they found a hole, they will contact administrator or support or someone that handle the site and tell them there is a bug in there site. and if they asked to help to fix the hole, the good hacker will help them.

bad hacker will do their skills to test security of the site and if they found a hole, they will penetrate into inside of the site, and collect all the data without anyone know and maybe they will sold the data into black market.

in this situation, i think the hacker will remain silence and maybe the hacker is already read the news about that. but if the hacker is a good person, i think he will make a contact with bitfinex and make a deal with them.

but if this is just from the people inside of bitfinex itself, so this news is just to show to the member, how bitfinex is really "care" with their member and at least they giving their member a "hope" for stolen bitcoin that "maybe" can be returned.

In short we call black hat and white hat hackers,where white hats are the saints,what ever may be the case the FBI will monitor the case and if at all they had any role in the hack ,then they will really pay for their greed ,but it is difficult to catch the culprit and probabily the only way they have any remote chance is when the hacker returns to have a conversation with them

The thing is that we don't know if bitfinex was actually hacked. This can be them looking for the "hacker" just to low-key say to people that they were actually hacked. It would be absurd if the hacker would actually take the bait. The hacker/s probably out there enjoying the money that he got. And I don't think the hacker would grab that "enormous bounty" unless it's higher than the money that he got by hacking bitfinex.

Offering the hacker some more money is crazy. It's like saying, "You've eaten a dozen pizza, here's another piece." Of course it's only a greedy hacker who would grab that enormous bounty. And chances are, it's bitfinex's way to catch the hacker if ever they were really hacked.

Many of us are thinking this way and it is just very easy for those people behind those 'hacking incident' to say that bifinex was hacked.

We don't know or I can't say a thing about this because there is no evidence to proved about the way we think.

I am just pretty concern for their investors if bitfinex will able to help and refund some funds for them.