[2015-11-15] Bitcoin Researcher Has Bitcoins Stolen From Private Key on Shirt

[LiteCoinGuy]

Bitcoin Researcher Has Bitcoins Stolen From Private Key on Shirt

The rising trend of bitcoin and substantial growth of investments in the digital currency space has increased the awareness of bitcoin across major cities in the United States.

Since early 2015, an escalating number of mainstream media outlets, international government agencies and law enforcement agencies have exclusively featured bitcoin in various publications and reports.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-researcher-has-bitcoins-stolen-from-private-key-on-shirt-1447447198



i would not have expected this in this short timeframe.

[OnkelPaul]

Is retrieving bitcoins from a deliberately published private address theft at all?

Of course, if some hacker empties a wallet because its owner is very careless about his PC security, it's still theft even if it was almost as simple as photographing a QR code.
But if I write account credentials such as username&password or a private key down and show them in public places, I can't really complain if someone uses them...

Onkel Paul

[tiggytomb]

Yeah, if you left your bank account details or credit card on the street you should fully expect for someone to use them.  I'm not saying it should happen but that's the world we live in sadly.

[Bitware]

This is contrived.

No one is that stupid.