Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by SV_BubbleTime on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:57PM (#23853397)

Pros: no taxes

Cons: trying to deal with 103k in bitcoin

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by alwillis on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:17PM (#23854170)

The market cap for Bitcoin is about $170 billion; 103k in Bitcoin would be a blip in the scheme of things.

Someone moved $1 billion nearly a year ago and I don’t believe we know who made it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/someone-moved-1-...

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by Sebb767 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:23PM (#23854227)

Finding a buyer is not the problem, the problem is the buyer finding you.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by WrtCdEvrydy on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @10:28PM (#23855086)

Sell $200 worth a pop on LocalBitcoin.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by onetimemanytime on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:11AM (#23855691)

very time consuming and risky in its own (robbery, state eventually finding out one way or another etc)

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by blaser-waffle on Thursday July 16, 2020 @09:15AM (#23858651)

Lots of little transactions, too. Easy to hide in the noise, at least at first, but when you start throwing out tons and tons of small transactions they can start with the pattern recognition.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by konschubert on Thursday July 16, 2020 @06:35AM (#23857565)

Still easily traceable.

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