can someone explain how this is possible?

[highwhey]

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1402017773971116032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5 Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1402017773971116032%7Ctwgr% 5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2Ftwi tter.min.html1402017773971116032



U.S. law enforcement officials say they were able to recover $2.3 million in bitcoin paid in the Colonial Pipeline ransom

i thot bitcoin was supposed to be safe. how the hell did the FBI recover btc from hackers?

[kenneth_griffin]

OP is nervous since he spent thousands in bitcoin to a Russian for some videos of his daughter stomping grapes with her bare feet

[highwhey]

OP is nervous since he spent thousands in bitcoin to a Russian for some videos of his daughter stomping grapes with her bare feet

that's oddly specific kenny https://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/5I5s8.png

[kenneth_griffin]

that's oddly specific kenny https://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/5I5s8.png


https://voca.ro/1fJhAksSnxZZ

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[Manny98]

https://voca.ro/1fJhAksSnxZZ

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d4/59/15/d45915cb68054e6fe069327cff87e1a1.jpg
wtf :oldlol:

[Cleverness]

https://i.makeagif.com/media/2-09-2016/UuTo2h.gif

[TheCorporation]

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1402017773971116032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5 Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1402017773971116032%7Ctwgr% 5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2Ftwi tter.min.html1402017773971116032




i thot bitcoin was supposed to be safe. how the hell did the FBI recover btc from hackers?

Someone probably had it on a cold wallet and they recovered it?

Or maybe even on a hard drive/USB. It's possible.

[coin24]

Or maybe you’ve been fooled, you’re not edgy and cool with your cryptos. The government wants people to merge over to a cashless society, so do the banks.
That way every cent is accounted for to be taxed on

[ZenMaster]

FBI had possession of the private key for the last address the hackers transferred to.

Sounds like these super hackers who can take down technological US infrastructure weren't smart enough to use Monero, or something else where you can make the coins disappear from tracking.
Perhaps the Russian super hackers were using a BTC address off of Coinbase or similar, can you believe it? :oldlol:

[Shogon]

https://medium.com/coinmonks/how-likely-is-it-that-someone-could-guess-your-bitcoin-private-key-6c0edd56fa1f


There are 2¹⁶⁰ possible Bitcoin addresses out there. And yes, that is a lot.
1,461,501,637,330,902,918,203,684,832,716,283,019, 655,932,542,976 to be precise…

They were recovered or confiscated in some other way that has absolutely nothing to do with Bitcoin's security being compromised from a brute forced private key, lol. Read the above article. TLDR:


So there we have it. The amount of possible bitcoin addresses would correspond to the amount of sand grains in a square of 131,072 x 131,072 earths next to each. One edge of this square would cover the distance between the earth and the sun ~11 times. Then stacking this square of earths on top of each other to reach 33.5 billion times the lenght of the entire observable universe. That’s the closest I could come to imagine how to visualize the vast amount of possible Bitcoin addresses out there.


Assuming all bitcoin miners in the world would start to generate addresses at a hashrate of 144*10¹⁸ H/s it would take about 16572 years to have a 10% chance of finding 1 address with 1 satoshi.

Using the same principle, finding the key of 1 particular address would a bit longer. It would take 4882 billion billion billion billion years for a 10% chance to find 1 specific key.

The people that did this are morons for multiple reasons.

They were likely dumb enough to do one or more of the following... a) go through an exchange b) not use a mixer or c) store their private keys in text format on some easily accessible service / server.

[Shogon]

Or maybe you’ve been fooled, you’re not edgy and cool with your cryptos. The government wants people to merge over to a cashless society, so do the banks.
That way every cent is accounted for to be taxed on

Your hero, the boy in your avatar, says otherwise. You've been shitposting FUD about Bitcoin for years. Shut up, dipshit, lol.

[ZenMaster]

https://medium.com/coinmonks/how-likely-is-it-that-someone-could-guess-your-bitcoin-private-key-6c0edd56fa1f



They were recovered or confiscated in some other way that has absolutely nothing to do with a Bitcoin's security being compromised from a brute forced private key, lol. Read the above article. There are more possible Bitcoin addresses than there are grains of sand on Earth.

The people that did this are morons for multiple reasons.

They were likely one of the following... dumb enough to... a) go through an exchange b) not use a mixer or c) store their private keys in text format on some easily accessible service / server.

Smart enough to stop oil supply in the US, but dumb enough to go through an exchange with US servers or store their private keys in text format on some easily accessible service/server. Those darn evil Russian superhackers, good thing they didn't get away with it!

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.379840/gov.uscourts.cand.379840.1.0.pdf

[Shogon]

Smart enough to stop oil supply in the US, but dumb enough to go through an exchange with US servers or store their private keys in text format on some easily accessible service/server. Those darn evil Russian superhackers, good thing they didn't get away with it!

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.379840/gov.uscourts.cand.379840.1.0.pdf

It really makes you wonder, right?

I don't trust anything the government or news media puts out, which is a shame because I'm sure most of it is accurate. But some of the shit they spew is so shamelessly false that it's like, eh, don't even pay attention to any of it.

[Shogon]

By the way... for those of you wondering... person X, Y or Z said A, B or C about Bitcoin! Sell it all! It's worth zero!

:roll:

If I had to really guess what happened, assuming this wasn't some sort of false flag... it would be that some ignorant kids paid some genuine hacker(s) to sell them or develop software for them and then the kids executed said software however they did it and then ****ed up handling of the funds from there in one of the aforementioned ways.

[highwhey]

hi shogun, i just wanted to lure you into to say hi https://emojipedia-us.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/thumbs/120/apple/285/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes_1f60a.png

[ZenMaster]

By the way... for those of you wondering... person X, Y or Z said A, B or C about Bitcoin! Sell it all! It's worth zero!

:roll:

If I had to really guess what happened, assuming this wasn't some sort of false flag... it would be that some ignorant kids paid some genuine hacker(s) to sell them or develop software for them and then the kids executed said software however they did it and then ****ed up handling of the funds from there in one of the aforementioned ways.

This is so far off the general narrative though and makes it seem highly unlikely.

[FultzNationRISE]

It really makes you wonder, right?

I don't trust anything the government or news media puts out, which is a shame because I'm sure most of it is accurate. But some of the shit they spew is so shamelessly false that it's like, eh, don't even pay attention to any of it.

Yup, tho even accurate information can be spun in a thousand ways. Communication is in itself a lot like translating. You're inherently putting some kind of spin on what you're communicating, by the way you choose to say it. This happens even before more direct manipulation happens like exaggeration, omission, etc. which we know big institutions are frequently inclined toward.

Anything the government and media put out there isn't just "hey we thought you oughtta know." It's ALWAYS got a purpose - which serves their interests. And that's assuming it isn't a partial truth, or even an outright lie... which we know they employ frequently.

[Im Still Ballin]

By the way... for those of you wondering... person X, Y or Z said A, B or C about Bitcoin! Sell it all! It's worth zero!

:roll:

If I had to really guess what happened, assuming this wasn't some sort of false flag... it would be that some ignorant kids paid some genuine hacker(s) to sell them or develop software for them and then the kids executed said software however they did it and then ****ed up handling of the funds from there in one of the aforementioned ways.

Welcome back dude. We thought you died!

[Axe]

hi shogun, i just wanted to lure you into to say hi https://emojipedia-us.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/thumbs/120/apple/285/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes_1f60a.png
The welfarefan would want to have an urge to hump him.

[RoseCity07]

If they someone got access to someone's files and got their private keys then it's quite easy. Some people are dumb enough to post wallet seeds in text files or have photos on a server. Once you have that you have the wallet.

[ZenMaster]

:oldlol:

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