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I wonder if the balances revealed are concretely tied to wallet data, or rather simply are entries in a database. If the latter (and from what they said it seem

by wfn 13y ago

I wonder if the balances revealed are concretely tied to wallet data, or rather simply are entries in a database. If the latter (and from what they said it seems to indeed be the latter), doesn't really mean much / doesn't contradict Mark's words in itself. (cf. Mark's comment that 'technically speaking [bitcoins are] not "lost" just yet, just temporarily unavailable.')

nwh 13y ago
They would just be balances, otherwise every trade in their engine would hammer the Bitcoin network with transactions. No sane person would do anything but have an external databases with a fairly tenuous connection to the actual wallet balances.