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Wouldn't believe anything he told this Vice reporter. Karpeles once famously slammed Prolexic and Black Lotus for weeks claiming they were 'a scam' then somebod
by pakled_engineer 11y ago
Wouldn't believe anything he told this Vice reporter. Karpeles once famously slammed Prolexic and Black Lotus for weeks claiming they were 'a scam' then somebody noticed he had failed to do even basic firewalling and ports were still wide open allowing attackers to easily bypass the DOS mitigation service. He's only one notch above in competency from the exchange that nuked their wallet when they shut down an AWS VM accidentally. That ol chestnut about the malleability vuln is not supported by their own logs they released it's more likely they were cleaned out months before and ran a scheme to inflate Bitcoin and recoup the losses until even that scheme imploded.
- emodendroket 11y agoHe's not quoted in the article and the only part of the article based on his account comes from another source and notes that it is impossible to verify and there is reason to be suspicious of it. Why not read the article before commenting?
- gwern 11y ago> Wouldn't believe anything he told this Vice reporter. "This is an excerpt from _Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires_, a new book by New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper. Reprinted courtesy of Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. "