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Re:Sheep Marketplace closes after theft of £3m in bitcoins by iSnow on Monday December 02, 2013 @09:13AM (#6833708)
It's more like $90m and it was the operator of the site (http://www.reddit.com/r/SheepMarketplace/comments/1ru5ir/fou... and other threads in that subreddit)
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Re:Sheep Marketplace closes after theft of £3m in bitcoins by easy_rider on Monday December 02, 2013 @09:49AM (#6833921)
That's right. 5400BTC is stated. Blockchain has been tracked, and first estimate was around https://blockchain.info/address/1EiVHZnDVjFH6Tic1YmWUSfYmVUn...

And then another blockchain was tracked. (the 90m one) And transactions all end all being chopped up, and redistriuted, with the largest amounts going into wallets like this:

https://blockchain.info/nl/address/1P7hjN2J119r2MoT14PwnvtNk... This

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Re:Sheep Marketplace closes after theft of £3m in bitcoins by judk on Monday December 02, 2013 @10:42AM (#6834290)
Is blockchain.info set up as an effective store of consensus around tracking "evil" addresses? If not, is anyone else doing that (publicly)? I am sure the NSA and cousins are studying the blockchain carefully.
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Re:Sheep Marketplace closes after theft of £3m in bitcoins by easy_rider on Monday December 02, 2013 @04:43PM (#6836746)
Well, I don't own BTC myself, am not in the BTC community and I'm not NSA even :) But judging by what the internets says. Yeah, this seems to be the the case in the BTC community to monitor and track suspicious activity. I've also seen a 00666 BTC transaction being used as a community effort to mark the blockchain. The number in the amount should need no further elaboration for the intention. That
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Re:Sheep Marketplace closes after theft of £3m in bitcoins by smartwater on Monday December 02, 2013 @10:49AM (#6834337)
It's just some dude tweaking out on meth in that thread. Interesting to see the difference between traditional amphetamines and meth. The motivation seems to be there, but incoherent and full of conspiracy theories too.
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