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Loss of his bitcoin is not yet confirmed. It's possible that only his twitter account got hacked, and the hacker is having some fun with it. Beyond being a bi
by tromp 4y ago
Loss of his bitcoin is not yet confirmed.
It's possible that only his twitter account got hacked, and the hacker is having some fun with it.
Beyond being a bitcoin core dev [1], Luke-Jr is also the author of an independent node and wallet implementation known as Bitcoin Knots [2].
[1] https://github.com/luke-jr https://github.com/luke-jr
[2] https://bitcoinknots.org/ https://bitcoinknots.org/
- yuvadam 4y agoPeter Todd claims he has confirmation [1] [1] - https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/1609655629903265795 https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/1609655629903265795
- gjsman-1000 4y agoIf a Bitcoin Developer with >$3M in Bitcoin didn’t use a hardware wallet… God help the typical Bitcoin user. It’s a tragedy, and inexcusable.
- SilasX 4y agoGavin Andresen, a lead Bitcoin developer, sent me a 10 BTC donation ($3000 at the time) when he meant to send $10 worth of BTC. Yes, I refunded. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14720921 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14720921
- horsawlarway 4y agofraud and reconciliation are fundamental in our finance systems. To claim this as anything other than a failing of bitcoin as a whole is "inexcusable".
- meltyness 4y agoI still get butterflies thinking about the clever beauty of the great network, computer, software, cryptographic security piñata in the sky. It means that rather than being a story about public affairs, snake oils, and conspiracies -- security is now a legitimate business concern. I won't pretend to have an endgame, but I really don't see too much to loathe. Even the most vehement concerns are easily reframed as opportunity. - Unsuspecting public? To contrast crypto with the system not many people's personal financial planning involves bounding correlations between News Sentiment -> VVIX -> VIX -> Derivatives market -> Volatile inflation across all sectors. - Security concerns? Again, this slaps a price tag, and hence quantifiable risk-level on every computer system security level -- airgapped? networked? It's practically its own insurance, on software that is still centuries away from being closed-form auditable. - Proof of work? Global governments cooperate to limit, minimize, control power usage. Not such a bad thing in that light, the power system could use more care and engineering as it is.
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- tmpburning 4y agoI host my Bitcoins publicly as a gpg encrypted file
- fortysixdegrees 4y agoCool. Link?
- tmpburning 4y agoI'll email it to you, if you provide an email address.
- dibt 4y agoA Bitcoin dev has a higher threat profile than the average person. if only because it would be assumed he had many bitcoin in self-custody. Many things we do as a 'nobody' would get us compromised if our threat profile were a littler higher. He made it worse by being so public, and hosting his own (publicly known) servers.
- urza 4y agoIt looks like it is just twitter hack. The wording in those tweets doesn't fit Luke's writing style. This is his mastodon, let's see if he posts anything there: https://bitcoinhackers.org/@lukedashjr https://bitcoinhackers.org/@lukedashjr
- theCrowing 4y agoYou believe that someone keeps their normal "writing style" when his livelihood gets stolen? :>
- urza 4y agoI have my doubts that he would keep much in hot wallet. That would be.. weird. But I might be wrong of course, let's wait for some confirmation.
- optimalsolver 4y agoSo your assertion that "It looks like it is just twitter hack" was based on a gut-feeling. You should probably have made that clearer.