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Re:Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code... by GigabyteCoin on Sunday December 01, 2013 @03:03AM (#6826569)
Bitcoin unfortunately makes this feat very difficult to verify. We will never truly know how much of that $24,000 the poster controlled in the first place.
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Re:Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code... by marcell on Sunday December 01, 2013 @03:21AM (#6826607)
The blockchain has timestamps, so actually you can verify quite easily. Unless, for some reason, the individual is sending bitcoins to himself...
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Re:Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code... by thelsdj on Sunday December 01, 2013 @04:50AM (#6826740)
That is the implication. He got sent very large sums of Bitcoin, you would expect that he'd just get a bunch of small ones, but he got 2-3 large ones ($5,000 a piece).
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Re:Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code... by richbradshaw on Sunday December 01, 2013 @05:52AM (#6826820)
Maybe from people who didn't realise how much they are worth?
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Re:Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code... by jonknee on Sunday December 01, 2013 @11:24AM (#6827877)
What number of people do you think qualify:

1) Have 5+ BTC 2) Recognize a QR code on a TV broadcast 3) Think to pause the tv broadcast, decode the QR code and send BTC 4) Completely unaware of the 1000s of news articles and broadcasts about the soaring value of BTC

Maybe he sent it to himself, maybe someone else was just very generous, but no one purposefully sent 5BTC without knowing it was valuable.

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Re:Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code... by waterlesscloud on Sunday December 01, 2013 @09:38AM (#6827385)
Or perhaps they do and have quite a large number of them.
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Re:Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code... by fastball on Sunday December 01, 2013 @05:02AM (#6826756)
What exactly would be the point of sending BTC to yourself?
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Re:Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code... by devonbarrett on Sunday December 01, 2013 @05:06AM (#6826761)
More publicity for bitcoin, to drive the price higher.
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Re:Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code... by MarcusVorenus on Sunday December 01, 2013 @05:46AM (#6826810)
He's donating 20 of the 22 BTC to Sean's Outpost so it's unlikely he would've done that with the sole intention of driving the price higher.
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