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August 03, 2017, 05:06:20 PM
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The ransom money from the wannacry cyber attack which has being untouched in online accounts and has being  on watch since by the twitter bot @actual_ransom  has just being moved by the hackers.

it is said that more than $140,000 worth of bitcoin has being evacuated from the 3 accounts that has being linked to the ransomware.

Continue Reading=>  https://zycrypto.com/hackers-empty-ransom-accounts-wannacry-attack/

Even in the event that an attacker gains more than 50% of the network's computational power, only transactions sent by the attacker could be reversed or double-spent. The network would not be destroyed.
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September 03, 2017, 01:51:35 AM
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Might be a dumb question but I was reading that miners can choose to not include transactions in the block to mine so technically if all miners agreed, couldn't the funds be stopped from moving indefinitely with a bit of code? It does seem after a few hours of reading on here that getting the miners to agree on anything is difficult to it just ain't happening.  But technically is it possible?
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