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If your cash was stolen from your wallet, how would you prove the cash was yours? Besides, I think most "mainstream Bitcoin users" have their wallets on sites
by higherpurpose 12y ago
If your cash was stolen from your wallet, how would you prove the cash was yours?
Besides, I think most "mainstream Bitcoin users" have their wallets on sites such as Bitstamp, Coinbase and so on. So they can prove the Bitcoin was theirs.
- vog 12y agoOr, as onli suggested, you can provide the private keys for the emptied account(s).
- throwaway84356 12y agoNo, you don't want to give away the priv keys, as someone may transmit a future transaction you could claim with it. Simply signing a message would be sufficient. Don't reuse the 'k' value with your ecdsa sig!
- vog 12y agoOf course, you just have to prove that you know the private key. Handing it out is unnecessary. My bad. BTW, instead of signing a message, you could also move around some money through that account. This may be easier to achieve for non-tech people, as it can be done with any Bitcoin client.