Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u...
by Waterluvian on Monday September 09, 2019 @02:35PM
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Being able to erase a billion dollars gives you a colossal amount of power to blackmail the owner of that billion dollars.
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Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u...
by lawn on Monday September 09, 2019 @02:46PM
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With only six confirmations it's extremely hard (in practice impossible) to reverse, which happens in around an hour. Just wait a few hours, or even a day, and the risk is basically non-existent. There are a million other things to worry about at that point (including someone hitting you with a wrench until you send them money).
The transaction now has 572 confirmations. Nobody will ever reverse that.
Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u...
by ijpoijpoihpiuoh on Monday September 09, 2019 @02:46PM
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You can't erase the bitcoins, just the transaction. If you did that, they'd still be in the source wallet.