Strangers are begging the Binance hacker for bitcoin, one ‘help me bro’ at a time
Source: CoinDesk ·
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The 19 wallets holding 18,270 stolen BTC have taken in nothing since Thursday except payments worth under a dollar, each carrying a message, from pleas to laundering pitches to a token shill. Someone has sent the Binance hacker that message three times since Friday, on each of the 19 wallets holding 18,270 stolen BTC. The coins haven’t moved since Thursday, but the addresses keep getting tiny payments worth less than a dollar, each carrying a note from a stranger. Bitcoin lets a sender bolt a short note onto a transaction through an output type called OP_RETURN , which writes up to 80 bytes permanently into the blockchain. The “help me bro” sender paid 1,000 satoshis (about 78 cents at current prices) to each wallet on Friday at 11:43 UTC , again at 16:03 UTC , then 1,111 satoshis each early Sunday , a CoinDesk analysis found. The first two rounds came from one wallet, with the change from the first paying for the second. All told, the sender spent about $46 in bitcoin plus fees to…
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