Inputs.io hacked – 4100 BTC stolen

Re:Inputs.io hacked – 4100 BTC stolen by steveklabnik on Thursday November 07, 2013 @01:20AM (#6687867)

Each bitcoin goes into a wallet, which contains an address. There's no connection between a person and a wallet, though, and it's not a 1:1 mapping, either.

> flagged as stolen

That would imply some sort of centralized authority to decide exactly what 'stolen' means. Even if a third-party service kept track, it'd be meaningless in short order, as mixers exist...

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Re:Inputs.io hacked – 4100 BTC stolen by josephagoss on Thursday November 07, 2013 @01:51AM (#6687978)

Also there is no connection between a wallet and an address except the wallet stores the address.

When the client sends the address the change is returned to a new change address, and the wallets are being designed now to never reuse addresses.

So it would become very hard to determine which of the outputs are change addresses and in the same wallet.

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