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Re:Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Pla... by phyushin on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:49AM (#14845929)
Title is also misleading ... They stole veri tokens and sold for eth not directly stealing any Eth... There was a story here last month that had a headache line like 'guy buys bit coin as 12$/coin is now worth millions' when what he actually did was sell those coins and use the money to start a company which he in turn sold for millions
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Re:Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Pla... by danmaz74 on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @05:17AM (#14846319)
Were they really able to sell the stolen VERI for that amount of ETH? That would be really impressive...
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Re:Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Pla... by joshschreuder on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @05:42AM (#14846411)
Not unless they sold before the news was out. Any mention of a hack is basically a fast track to flash crash in the cryptocurrency space.
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Re:Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Pla... by daddyo on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @10:47AM (#14848098)
They were dumping it at 50% market price for ETH a few days ago. Don't know if they dumped it all or still sitting on a bit for when the market recovers.
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