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Bitcoin unfortunately makes this feat very difficult to verify. We will never truly know how much of that $24,000 the poster controlled in the first place.
by GigabyteCoin 13y ago
Bitcoin unfortunately makes this feat very difficult to verify. We will never truly know how much of that $24,000 the poster controlled in the first place.
- marcell 13y agoThe blockchain has timestamps, so actually you can verify quite easily. Unless, for some reason, the individual is sending bitcoins to himself...
- thelsdj 13y agoThat is the implication. He got sent very large sums of Bitcoin, you would expect that he'd just get a bunch of small ones, but he got 2-3 large ones ($5,000 a piece).
- richbradshaw 13y agoMaybe from people who didn't realise how much they are worth?
- waterlesscloud 13y agoOr perhaps they do and have quite a large number of them.
- jonknee 13y agoWhat number of people do you think qualify: 1) Have 5+ BTC 2) Recognize a QR code on a TV broadcast 3) Think to pause the tv broadcast, decode the QR code and send BTC 4) Completely unaware of the 1000s of news articles and broadcasts about the soaring value of BTC Maybe he sent it to himself, maybe someone else was just very generous, but no one purposefully sent 5BTC without knowing it was valuable.
- fastball 13y agoWhat exactly would be the point of sending BTC to yourself?
- devonbarrett 13y agoMore publicity for bitcoin, to drive the price higher.
- MarcusVorenus 13y agoHe's donating 20 of the 22 BTC to Sean's Outpost so it's unlikely he would've done that with the sole intention of driving the price higher.