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You don’t need a wallet to be a victim of this. For example, someone could create an address only you can access with your Github public SSH key or the TLS publ
by rvcdbn 4y ago
You don’t need a wallet to be a victim of this. For example, someone could create an address only you can access with your Github public SSH key or the TLS public key of the project website (any public key that only you have the private key to will work).
- bee_rider 4y agoThis seems like the sort of thing we'll need some cases to resolve. If someone hides some valuable assets somewhere on your property and without telling you, presumably the IRS has some less-painful way of resolving this as long as you make a good faith effort to do so as soon as you become aware of it.
- Macha 4y agoThis was part of the big gittip controversy a few years ago where open source projects didn't want to do the tax paperwork they were now obligated to do by gittip holding funds in their name for like $50/year.
- moolcool 4y agoWhy would the "victim" care (or even find out about) this "attack"? My understanding is that because eth is fungible, it would poison an existing wallet with funds in it. I.e. if you have $5 in coins, and I give you $5 more in stolen coins, your entire coinpurse is essentially tainted. Your example would just be giving somebody a tainted wallet. Worst case scenario, you cycle your keys.
- salawat 4y agoIt's not an issue. Regulator established dead-drop address, you move the requested amount. You're good to go. Forensic accounting is quite simple in that regard.
- mrgoldenbrown 4y agoIf somebody buries a pile of gold in the desert, then sends a treasure map to my P.O. Box, I don't think the IRS is going to be knocking down my door, unless I actually go get the gold and do something with it. Until I take possession of the gold, nobody even knows if there is gold or not.
- EGreg 4y agoThose keys don’t actually work with the elliptic curve that Ethereum keys use