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The blockchain has timestamps, so actually you can verify quite easily. Unless, for some reason, the individual is sending bitcoins to himself...

• thelsdj 13y ago
  That 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 ago
    Maybe from people who didn't realise how much they are worth?
    • waterlesscloud 13y ago
      Or perhaps they do and have quite a large number of them.
    • jonknee 13y ago
      What 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.