A Bitcoin Address with 782,000 BTC Moved Through It

Re:A Bitcoin Address with 782,000 BTC Moved Through It by weavie on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @09:33AM (#7297766)

What are the Public Note: sections in the blockchain about?

One of the transactions from this account traces down to this address (https://blockchain.info/address/16cou7Ht6WjTzuFyDBnht9hmvXyt...) that contains 53,000 BTC. Transactions into this account have Public Notes saying things like

- Worth a shot. My sis really is dying man. https://www.facebook.com/MySisterHasCancer. Debts around 310,000.00 now. I dont get it, its nothing to you..

- I am from Russia. Help to buy a house. I need 100 BTC. 1MEmKEuJxXT71UgRCAhDpjDpYWSMSNcgKp I would be grateful :) Would century are numbered ;)

- I am a Chinese college students, I have a loving father, but I can not help him, he needs to do heart bypass surgery, I can not help him, because the cost of 100,000 or so needed, please help me, lifelong You pray Thank you!

Any ideas what that's all about?

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Re:A Bitcoin Address with 782,000 BTC Moved Through It by smtddr on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @10:27AM (#7298057)

Just random people begging for money; trying their luck.

https://blockchain.info/wallet/website-faq

Scroll to the very bottom.

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Re:A Bitcoin Address with 782,000 BTC Moved Through It by matteyes on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @10:35AM (#7298117)

I'm not really familiar with how all these annotations work, but that is spam, no? There are a few references to casions. One message about a "SR mixer" where BTC owners send an amount to a certain address to have it mixed and returned (which I don't trust a bit). It looks to me--though as I said, I may be misunderstanding it--that this account is engaged in some light BTC phishing?

edit: oh, yup. misunderstanding. Those are transaction to the wallet, presumably because this wallet is so obviously well-heeled.

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