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Fascinating to see the transactions going up (refresh the page) every minute as the scam propagate

by throwaway888abc 6y ago

baal80spam 6y ago
Someone just sent 4.5 BTC...
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- jolmg 6y ago
  At 13:47 PDT, there's a 60.4 BTC one[1]. That alone is half a million USD. EDIT: Replies are right. Now I see that the majority of it went to the same address as the source. [1] https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/4df1391d936d3256ce84a867e15b9ef529161bf6b8ef48a1a1a7ec062d9f3a12 https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/4df1391d936d3256ce84a867e1...
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  - baal80spam 6y ago
    Wait, where do you see that? On the linked page, I can see the following: Total Received: 11.39184745 BTC edit: OK, either this is strange or I don't understand how it works.
    - jolmg 6y ago
      Yeah, I also don't understand how one can have multiple destination addresses in a single transaction.
      - oarsinsync 6y ago
        As a a sender, you have a coin of amount X, and you split it up and send it wherever you like If your coin is 1 and you want to send one person 0.2 and another person 0.3, you can do that as a single transaction to three destinations, one with 0.2, another with 0.3 (to the people you’re sending to) and a final one with 0.5 back to one of your own addresses (aka a change wallet)
    - oarsinsync 6y ago
      You’re fine. The GP doesn’t understand. Only 0.00291948 BTC was sent to the hacker wallet. The remainder went to other wallets. The vast majority went back to the person making the transaction (IE nowhere)
      - bobbyi_settv 6y ago
        What is the point of someone sending btc back to himself?
        lawn 6y ago
        That's just how Bitcoin works. Say you have 1 BTC on an address and you want to send 0.1 to someone, you still need to send all of the money. So wallets "split" the 1 BTC into 0.1 and 0.9 outputs, sending the 0.9 to yourself to another address you control. It's called a change address. Modern wallets do this automatically, but it can be confusing to look at it on a blockchain explorer.
        shuntress 6y ago
        Maybe she is just trying to flex.
        oarsinsync 6y ago
        It’s like paying for a $3 latte with a $50. You need to get your change back.
  - dnprock 6y ago
    In this transaction, there's only 0.00291948 BTC sent to the scamming address: bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh. It's time to learn more about Bitcoin. :)
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Fascinating to see the transactions going up (refresh the page) every minute as the scam propagate

baal80spam 6y ago

Someone just sent 4.5 BTC...

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jolmg 6y ago
At 13:47 PDT, there's a 60.4 BTC one[1]. That alone is half a million USD. EDIT: Replies are right. Now I see that the majority of it went to the same address as the source. [1] https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/4df1391d936d3256ce84a867e15b9ef529161bf6b8ef48a1a1a7ec062d9f3a12 https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/4df1391d936d3256ce84a867e1...
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- baal80spam 6y ago
  Wait, where do you see that? On the linked page, I can see the following: Total Received: 11.39184745 BTC edit: OK, either this is strange or I don't understand how it works.
  - jolmg 6y ago
    Yeah, I also don't understand how one can have multiple destination addresses in a single transaction.
    - oarsinsync 6y ago
      As a a sender, you have a coin of amount X, and you split it up and send it wherever you like If your coin is 1 and you want to send one person 0.2 and another person 0.3, you can do that as a single transaction to three destinations, one with 0.2, another with 0.3 (to the people you’re sending to) and a final one with 0.5 back to one of your own addresses (aka a change wallet)
  - oarsinsync 6y ago
    You’re fine. The GP doesn’t understand. Only 0.00291948 BTC was sent to the hacker wallet. The remainder went to other wallets. The vast majority went back to the person making the transaction (IE nowhere)
    - bobbyi_settv 6y ago
      What is the point of someone sending btc back to himself?
      - lawn 6y ago
        That's just how Bitcoin works. Say you have 1 BTC on an address and you want to send 0.1 to someone, you still need to send all of the money. So wallets "split" the 1 BTC into 0.1 and 0.9 outputs, sending the 0.9 to yourself to another address you control. It's called a change address. Modern wallets do this automatically, but it can be confusing to look at it on a blockchain explorer.
      - shuntress 6y ago
        Maybe she is just trying to flex.
      - oarsinsync 6y ago
        It’s like paying for a $3 latte with a $50. You need to get your change back.
- dnprock 6y ago
  In this transaction, there's only 0.00291948 BTC sent to the scamming address: bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh. It's time to learn more about Bitcoin. :)
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