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The Chess Match That Led the Feds to $3.6B in Stolen Bitcoin
- kwertyoowiyop 5y agoFinally, a feel-good story about cryptocurrency!
- hstaab 5y agoIf I’m understanding correctly, the thief kept all addresses and their keys in something like Google Drive and the US gov simply reached in and took them. Pro tip: it’s a bad idea to keep anything in cloud storage you wouldn’t mind sharing with the Feds
- tenuousemphasis 5y agoRight? I don't understand how you are holding billions of dollars of cryptocurrency on cloud storage without losing your mind to anxiety.
- Thetawaves 5y agoEasy come, easy go?
- geek_at 5y agoIn a different write up I read that the wallet he had on the cloud drive was encrypted but the feds were able to Crack the password
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- eaenki 5y agoHumans are pretty dumb eh
- once_inc 5y agoWas anyone else expecting them to dox themselves after a chess game and the feds linking the money to the hacked stash?
- bitxbitxbitcoin 5y agoYes. I really don’t understand the chess match analogy given that there were multiple players on both teams.
- lupire 5y agochess is smarty and computers are smarty.
- lupire 5y agoPlease change title. Article has nothing do with chess, literally or figuratively.