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Re:$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GB... by michaelt on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @03:52AM (#6716595)
Can I maliciously transfer my stolen bitcoins to rich/famous people and get their accounts frozen? Is there a minimum transfer, of will 1 satoshi per account be enough? What if I feed them into a bitcoin tumbler before the theft is discovered, does whoever was selling on silkroad that day get their account frozen?
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Re:$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GB... by jlgreco on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @04:16AM (#6716675)
For that matter, can I start stealing bitcoins, and transferring them all to known FBI controlled addresses in order to 'pin' those attacks on the FBI?
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Re:$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GB... by lmm on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @06:20AM (#6717106)
It's "normal" to use a different address for each transaction (even when you spend from an address, you spend all of it, sending your "change" to a new address). But I don't know whether you could deliberately send to existing addresses.
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