Bitcoin stolen from news anchor on live TV

[Athom]

The perils of the digital currency Bitcoin have been revealed in a not-so-daring heist pulled off during a live TV broadcast.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/2013/12/24/11/20/bitcoin-stolen-from-news-anchor-on-live-tv

[Cryddit]

I call this a pure white hat move.  The newscaster accidentally put the QR code on the air, so anybody could have taken that money.  It is *STUNNING* that the first guy who did was the one guy out of a thousand or so who would give the money back. 

Applause all around, folks.  That's a class act of protecting the idiot from himself, as opposed to a thief taking advantage of an idiot.

[inthemoney25]

the guy that got 22 bitcoins from posting his QR code on the news has better luck than the reporter in that video lol

[e521]

This is freaking awesome! I wouldn't believe it really, somebody returning 22 BTC, must be satoshi himself

[beetcoin]

fyi, i believe he later donated all that he took to seans outpost.

[hownowbrowncow]

fyi, i believe he later donated all that he took to seans outpost.

Came to mention this.

[hostmaster]

It's good to see honest people exists and they are many!

[Elwar]

It was on Bloomberg. As much as they like to attack Bitcoin they should have kept the money.

[LiteCoinGuy]

thats matt, "the believer"  

he talked about that in the show.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=366211.0

[bryant.coleman]

This is freaking awesome! I wouldn't believe it really, somebody returning 22 BTC, must be satoshi himself

Read the link carefully. The amount stolen was not 22 BTC, but 0.027 BTC, which was worth $20.

And the thief offered to return the BTC, but the news anchor told him that there is no need to do that and he can keep the BTCs with him.

And yes, it is nice to have some honest people here, it is such an extreme rarity.

[battlescars]

  What a cute heart warming story, the dummy news anchor loses his bitcoins and the white hat hacker decides to give them back
while the news anchor refuses.

ok, no such thing as bad publicity and any publicity especially about bitcoin on any channel on TV is good news for btc, maybe this stunt

because i assume thats what it was a publicity stunt caused btc to go up lol?