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TheJacob
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December 04, 2013, 09:32:51 PM |
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So 96,000 bitcoins were sent out before the site realized anything was wrong?
Seems like that would be a lot of volume and suspicious right?
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December 04, 2013, 09:34:21 PM |
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i think i read something like the thief made the bitcoins appear to be in the wallets somehow, but you just couldn't withdraw.. and that lasted for about a week. by the time the weekend came around, people began to get a little suspicious and they figured out that the money was taken from them.
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hilariousandco
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December 04, 2013, 09:36:03 PM |
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So 96,000 bitcoins were sent out before the site realized anything was wrong?
Seems like that would be a lot of volume and suspicious right?
i think i read something like the thief made the bitcoins appear to be in the wallets somehow, but you just couldn't withdraw.. and that lasted for about a week. by the time the weekend came around, people began to get a little suspicious and they figured out that the money was taken from them.
Yeah, very clever: Here's what happened: someone (or some group) managed to fake the balances in peoples’ accounts on the site, showing that they had their bitcoins in their wallets when they’d actually been transferred out. Over the course of a week the whole site was drained, until the weekend when the site's administrators realised what was happening and shut everything down. |
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December 04, 2013, 09:38:38 PM |
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I hope that's given to the poor
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December 04, 2013, 09:41:52 PM |
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I think his best hope of escape would be to just forget about cashing it in and to just distribute it randomly.
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December 04, 2013, 09:43:37 PM |
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I think his best hope of escape would be to just forget about cashing it in and to just distribute it randomly.
Or give it back? |
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December 04, 2013, 09:47:32 PM |
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So 96,000 bitcoins were sent out before the site realized anything was wrong?
Seems like that would be a lot of volume and suspicious right?
i think i read something like the thief made the bitcoins appear to be in the wallets somehow, but you just couldn't withdraw.. and that lasted for about a week. by the time the weekend came around, people began to get a little suspicious and they figured out that the money was taken from them.
Yeah, very clever: Here's what happened: someone (or some group) managed to fake the balances in peoples’ accounts on the site, showing that they had their bitcoins in their wallets when they’d actually been transferred out. Over the course of a week the whole site was drained, until the weekend when the site's administrators realised what was happening and shut everything down. So it took a whole week for someone to actually check and verify one of the addresses on the blockchain? Sounds Sketchy to me. |
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December 04, 2013, 09:48:36 PM |
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yes i read this earlier, hope they can track him down |
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TheJacob
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December 04, 2013, 09:52:28 PM |
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I think his best hope of escape would be to just forget about cashing it in and to just distribute it randomly.
Send some to just random people's addresses just to throw the scent off? Probably too greedy to do that. Would probably be a hell of a lot harder to track if some % of them were actually in circulation.
So it took a whole week for someone to actually check and verify one of the addresses on the blockchain? Sounds Sketchy to me.
Yeh, I don't doubt the balances on the site showed the correct balance. The part I don't understand is how someone from the site didn't see their accounts slowly being drained of what has to be a massive part of their total bitcoins. Its not like you would audit balances by looking in your database. You'd look at the actual balance. |
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December 04, 2013, 09:58:14 PM |
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they already got US and chinese scammers. so have a nice time guys  |
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December 04, 2013, 10:03:17 PM |
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they already got US and chinese scammers. so have a nice time guys Agreed. I am all for not touching the fungability of BItcoins. They should always all be worth exactly the same. That said- I don't mind if people track thieves down. :-) In a way this is the fulfilment of the more fair aspect of bitcoin- the openess can help to prevent theft. It's hard to steal if you know everyone is watching you. |
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December 05, 2013, 12:39:23 AM |
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i've even seen this guy's facebook page. somehow i suspect life is going to be very not fun for him soon, if it's not already.
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December 05, 2013, 12:44:38 AM |
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he's probably in hiding now.. 96k bitcoins is a lot of money, and some people are going to be angry as fuck.. if he's found, and doesn't pay for protection, he'll probably be killed.
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December 05, 2013, 12:50:29 AM |
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Keep in mind that he stole from a site full of drug dealers.
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December 05, 2013, 06:15:49 AM |
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If he does coin-mixing (more than once) will it be possible to track him?
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December 05, 2013, 06:34:43 AM |
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If he does coin-mixing (more than once) will it be possible to track him?
i don't know how it works, but some guy on reddit is tracking him so he can't get away with it. and when he's mixing so many coins, it's kind of hard to launder too. |
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December 05, 2013, 07:33:17 AM |
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That's one heck of a steal job!
That's the beauty of Bitcoin, you can even track the robbers running with a stash.
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December 05, 2013, 07:53:07 AM |
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i've even seen this guy's facebook page. somehow i suspect life is going to be very not fun for him soon, if it's not already.
You mean his "real" FB page? Can you give me a link? I thought that his identity was not known... except for the fact that he is from the Czech Republic. |
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December 05, 2013, 07:55:04 AM |
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i've even seen this guy's facebook page. somehow i suspect life is going to be very not fun for him soon, if it's not already.
You mean his "real" FB page? Can you give me a link? I thought that his identity was not known... except for the fact that he is from the Czech Republic. i posted it a few days ago in a different thread.. his name was tomas something, and he had a picture of himself grabbing a girl's tit. for your information, his gf had a pretty nice rack  i think he deleted his account, since it's showing "page not found." |
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