I tend to believe more and more it's a prank.

* The story is still only on Twitter and not on Mastodon, although it tells everywhere "Mastodon preferred"
* Stealing from the cold storage would be possible only if the user would be more than incredibly sloppy/uncautious.
* I don't think that somebody for so long in Bitcoin would ask for FBI help, and also would not do it on Twitter.
* Luke Dash Jr is (proudly!) asking for donations for his work; was he indeed owning 200 BTC ?!

I *know* that Peter Todd has confirmed the story, but the things still don't add up.


Yes, that too; I've followed some of those transactions and it looks more a consolidation of funds than anything else.

Use cold storage safer, i.e. transfer tx via images, not USB stick between cold and hot storage or simply use hardware wallet.
Make sure the private keys have never been and never will be on a computer that will go online, not even for printing them.

This kind of precautions should at least keep the cold storage safe.

It's already 3.4% and decreasing; I guess that the miners affected by the bad weather are firing their gears up again.

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Since Gazeta keeps asking when I make my bet , here we are:

So you say that if some coins from Blacklisted address A are sent to address B and then to you they're absolutely fine, because they're not from a blacklisted address/wallet.
You're telling big words, but it looks like it's you who doesn't understand much.


This is a good one

I think that you may be misunderstanding something, so let's make the terms clearer.
Cold wallet or cold storage is usually a wallet software running on a laptop that's always offline.
Hardware wallet is an external device that can create wallet seed and sign transactions; this also needs a wallet software running on a laptop or smartphone, but they can be (should be) connected to the internet.

So, in order to get the master public key from a cold wallet you need either an USB stick, either (better) a camera, since Electrum allows sharing all kind of info, including the master public key, as QR image. If this is the "connect the cold wallet to the laptop/smartphone" you had im mind, then maybe you've used bad terms and I'm too strict.

If you meant hardware wallets... then there's no sharing of keys between the HW and the software wallet from your laptop/smartphone you should do. By connecting the HW to the wallet software the wallet software knows what to do in order to show you the addresses and request signing transactions. In this case, some wallets (Ledger Nano S plus, Trezor T, Trezor one, some others too) work with cable connection, others (Ledger Nano X, Satochip, some others too) work with wireless connection (Bluetooth or NFC) hence don't need physical connection.

Get a hardware wallet. Or a SeedSigner device.
...Or set up both your cold storage and companion watch only hot wallet with Electrum on laptops with cameras, hence allowing you transfer those transactions (unsigned and signed) as QR code images.

If you're adding a secondary cold storage:
* you're doing it wrong
* you've misunderstood something and need to read more

However, this is off topic, if you have more questions please make a new topic with them.

I've just found out that this topic is also discussed on Bitcoin Discussions.
And @tranthidung does have a point: this may not be META material.

...So... maybe we continue there? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5432665.0

Everything looks more than sloppy for a Bitcoin Developer. Surreal. Hot wallet is possible, but a dev's cold wallet... hmm...

While Peter Todd has confirmed the story, also on Twitter, I find it incredible and I still tend to think that's higher chance both Twitter accounts (Luke-Jr and Peter Todd) are compromised than all this story (including Luke calling on Twitter for FBI, come on...). Even more, no sign of this story on his Mastodon/BitcoinHackers account.

1. I recommend you consider buying/using a hardware wallet, it's more newbie friendly and you may make less mistakes than with a cold storage.
2. No matter what storage you use (cold storage of HW), consider recovering from seed after the initial setup so you are sure the backup seed you will store (safely, offline, multiple copies) is the correct one.
3. I recommend you withdraw first a smaller amount to verify the process goes on as it should, then the rest, even if this means doubling the withdrawal fee. For 3 BTC no safety measure is too small.


Also the recommendation you've already got to ignore private messages and invitations to Telegram, Discord or whatever is a very good one.



It depends how badly you do it. Keep in mind that cold storage is meant to always stay offline, no matter what. Do you know how to use cold storage to sign a transaction without transforming it in hot wallet? I hope you do.

Mda, am vazut si eu chestia asta la unele concursuri; dar aici nu stiu daca a fost aceeasi situatie, ca au fost mult mai multe premii decat concurenti inscrisi. Dar na, nimic nu e imposibil...


Azi am planuri sa lucrez un pic la un proiect de-al meu, asa ca probabil ca voi fi apt, deci da.


Hehe, multumesc!
Pana miercuri-joi inca speram sa prind locul 1 si portmoneul hardware de la Betnomi, dar nu ma plang, nici premiul 3 nu e rau deloc!

I know that he's one of the known Bitcoin Core devs and I know that he's on other projects too and since his PGP key has to be considered compromised, people should be very careful.
About what's his role on this forum... this is his account, I don't know if he's mod on the forum.

And while OP may be wrong on the mod part, the rest is quite concerning (for both sloppiness and the actual fact he got hacked).

According to Peter Todd it's not a Twitter hack and it's for real
https://mobile.twitter.com/peterktodd/status/1609655629903265795

Although I fail to understand that
* everything is lost, even cold storage (come on...)
* he was asking FBI for help

All those addresses are yours, don't worry. Get the first green one and you're OK.
Or get the one from the Receive tab and you're most probably OK with that too (that address too is most probably in that big list)

Easier: Do View->Show Addresses
Go to Addresses tab
Copy (CTRL-C) the first address from there and you're good. (it starts with 1, right?)

PS. In the "receive" area it's not the address that's expiring, it's the "request", and that doesn't matter much. However, working with the addresses tab can be easier for your peace of mind.

I've quoted it (and added tags) in order to show the image.

Delegating to others means trusting them. Why would one miner or pool trust another miner or pool?! They're fiercely competing each other! Any miner would love to get an edge, even by not playing fair, in order to win the next block. Bitcoin is not meant to need trust in somebody else. That's why it still works.

Maybe I'm missing something, but this looks to me more about not taking into account the human factor (and the high chance some would try to cheat), than about cryptography.

While it is possible to get over 20k, it's hard to tell whether it will actually happen.
But if we do the math, getting there would be 25% up, if also take into the account the current sentiment, with topics telling with charts and numbers that going down to 9k is also possible, ... I add them up and I would be happy even if we end January at over 18k or at least without going lower than 16k.

I've tried to re-formulate one of your questions when this was in same guy's topic in Service Announcements.
His answer was weak, plus he started threatening that he'll lock the topic, so I didn't pay more attention to that topic.
I see now that he has more topics on his service and still trying to avoid some questions.

On this problem you're right (to pursue the truth) and his behavior is shady.



It can very well be the case. I've seen another user too doing this type of service and spawning new topic one after another as soon as the questions have become difficult.


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Thanks for bringing this back into attention. I've also edited my initial post there (I usually try to be nice/supportive for new businesses and this one is yet another one not deserving it).

This is the point you're completely right and you should never forget that. Whatever people may be telling, subjectivism is an important factor.
While it's hard fact that you were not proven as plagiarist (else your account would be gone), the people did make their own opinion on that matter (whether that's correct and reflecting reality or not, that's another matter).
So, no offense, but imho it won't help anyone to make a big deal of it, since, whether you like or not, in many cases it won't be easy to change that subjective bit. I may be wrong, but I think that this matter is best to remain buried in the past.


However, this is imho off topic and I would appreciate to not continue a/the dispute in here, since the idea of the topic was in Christmas spirit.

Das ist ein sehr schön Start ins neue Jahr!
Vielen Dank 1miau und Betnomi!

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