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Can bitcoins be stolen? As in, don't they belong to whoever can access them. What makes a bitcoin mine besides that? Like if I guess your hash and transfer the

• dudus 6y ago
  It's a phishing strategy to get the user to install a malware version of the client that sends their coins to somewhere else. Nothing crazy interesting. Just comes to show thieves will keep up with tech
• Proven 6y ago
  Some people would say bitcoins are impossible to "own" and it's hard to argue against that (and that makes the concepts of "investing in bitcoin", "protecting your wealth", "bitcoin as store of value" moot). You cannot prevent access to "your" bitcoins and they're by definition copied to computers all over world as that's how bitcoin works. Once you willingly put your digital property on the internet it's hard to argue it's your property that you meant to protect. 14 million? Meh. Easy come, easy go. Maybe the coins were acquired for $14 bucks back in 2012.
• aaron695 6y ago
  > As in, don't they belong to whoever can access them No. If it steal your physical $ do I own them? ( I think the bank technically owns it, but same point ) > if I guess your hash Not possible. But let's say you are amazing at mathematics and through hard work do, then that would be up to a judge. I'm not sure a 51% attack is legal. I'd say not. This attack linked is absolutely illegal and jail time.