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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by jhgorrell on Sunday August 02, 2020 @10:30PM (#24033647)
Kinda funny to see 1BTC sent to check it worked before they sent the rest. Cant undo it like a wire transfer...
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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by gruez on Sunday August 02, 2020 @10:38PM (#24033694)
But why 1 BTC? That's worth more than 10k. Surely they could have sent a fraction? Or maybe they didn't know bitcoins can be split?
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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by vdfs on Sunday August 02, 2020 @10:41PM (#24033714)
10k out of 4.3m
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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by uncleputin on Monday August 03, 2020 @05:41AM (#24035750)
10k is not that much considering they are ready to pay out 5M
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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by dopamean on Monday August 03, 2020 @10:17AM (#24038027)
No but isn't it just as easy to send a fraction of a bitcoin? Why spend a whole one to do something you could do with 1/100th?
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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by csomar on Monday August 03, 2020 @04:28AM (#24035321)
1 BTC is a fraction of 400BTC
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