please stop spreading FUD stuff...
bitcoin wasn't hijacked and throttled. what happend was that some guy managed to brainwash some people and created bitcoin cash with that money
Just FYI, that guy is a fraud and a scammer, faked evidence that he is satoshi and has consolidated an absolute majority of cryptocurrency world in an opinion that he is the most toxic thing that happened to cryptocurrency world.
A 2012 Bitcoin hack victim was none other than a lead developer of Bitcoin. Back then, they ran a Bitcoin faucet on it that gave out a paltry 0.25 Bitcoin at a time.
I never bothered to jump through those hoops for like a dollar (now about US$10k):
His name was on a fallacious bitcoin "assassination market" only accessible over Tor, basically just a website you could submit names to, with an associated bitcoin address. An obvious scam to glean free bitcoin. The hit man claim is complete horse shit.
Don't promote this guy, it should be obvious he is a conman. He claimed to be the creator of bitcoin ten years ago using C++ and Qt, yet there is no other software that he has written anywhere to be found.
He claimed he would sign a message with the private key from the genesis block, yet never did. Instead he used a previously signed message to dupe people.
Here is a blog post that he edited to make it look like he was working on cryptocurrency in 2008:
You're free to believe that I (the author) made up this story. I'm not a fiction writer; the Bitcoin security space is exciting enough without needing to waste time making stories up.
I'll note that we have seen several folks report being victims of similar attacks since we published this article.
As the article states, if this person had really wanted to profit, a far easier method would have been to use Satoshi's identity to manipulate the price of Bitcoin. Either he didn't, in fact, realize that opportunity (despite his claims), or he has other motives besides simply profiting from the hack. (Or something more complicated is going on.)
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