4 ms·
Why would a criminal leave the coins to sit in the final wallet undisturbed? The article said the wallet only had incoming transactions and never sent any coins
by eridius 8y ago
Why would a criminal leave the coins to sit in the final wallet undisturbed? The article said the wallet only had incoming transactions and never sent any coins anywhere. Surely if you're a criminal organization stealing cryptocurrency you'd want to actually use it.
- notahacker 8y agoIt's not necessarily the only wallet a criminal has access to, and most people don't draw on their savings account all the time. Can't fathom why a government would want to write algorithms that quietly steal tokens from thousands of random individuals unfortunate enough to have particularly crackable private keys and send them to a particular dormant account either. It's not like there's a lack of other crypto-heist stories out there.
- eridius 8y agoA government has a much more plausible reason to be willing to siphon off and stockpile large amounts of cryptocurrency without using it, just in case they ever do need to have a bunch of coins on hand for something.