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Re:FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims by voytec on Friday January 06, 2023 @07:12AM (#34273840)
Not sure about the right mind but the BTC core developer who "lost" 216 BTC a few days back apparently tried asking FBI for help[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1609630432546406404#m

Re:FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims by judge2020 on Friday January 06, 2023 @08:29AM (#34274344)
As long as you were going to pay taxes and weren’t actually defrauding people, might as well file a report in case anything comes of it.
Re:FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims by lfodofod on Friday January 06, 2023 @09:02AM (#34274619)
It’s worth noting that Luke would be a prime target for nation state hackers from DPRK and the likes.

What happened here was likely a failed attempt to slip a backdoor into bitcoin core, attackers pulled out and took his bitcoins as a consolation price after he realised his server had been compromised.

The FBI should absolutely be jumping on this, not because of bitcoin, but because of the likely perpetrators.

Re:FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims by luma on Friday January 06, 2023 @12:39PM (#34278044)
Luke had his wallet sitting on a server that he knew to be compromised for months. There is no reason to expect a nation state actor, his loss was 100% his own poor security. It also says a lot about the "wisdom" of hosting your own wallet. Can't trust the exchanges, and you can't trust your own wallet.
Re:FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims by gggggg5 on Friday January 06, 2023 @03:46PM (#34280801)
> Luke had his wallet sitting on a server that he knew to be compromised for months

How do you know this? Luke has denied this over and over again. It seems like you've invented this in order to defame him.

Re:FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims by voytec on Saturday January 07, 2023 @05:24AM (#34286852)
He twitted it himself in November:

https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1593227756841578496

He then only "purged the backdoors" which suggests very poor approach to security. If anything, he publicly discredited himself.

Re:FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims by astrange on Friday January 06, 2023 @03:12PM (#34280336)
Well, he can now take a $3000 capital loss deduction for the next 1223 years.
Re:FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims by redog on Friday January 06, 2023 @10:02AM (#34275360)
He's a liar. I'm guessing that he's figured out some way to launder them and this is just tax fraud.