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Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone

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Post by tim333 »

Scoundreller wrote: post #333
tim333 wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kraken had like a two hour podcast coming to much the same conclusion as the most probable explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB0OQae4fWo It seems the problems may have started with a software screw up, leaving the "0x" off the ether address. https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6ettq5/statement_... which lost them I think 67,317 ETH permanently. Ah the wonders of cryptocurrency. https://www.reddit.com…

I’m a bit sympathetic to their loss. They were supposed to use 0x notation for a particular hex value, but the software always worked without it. Then some tiny x.x.1 patch upgrade changed the functionality, now requiring the 0x, without documenting the change.

It's scary that with crypto such things can make it so hard to get your money back. I know there was talk of fixing it with a fork to the Ethereum chain one day. Not sure what happened there.

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Post by agentofoblivion »

Everyone is a fraud. “A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that investigators cracked Cotten's laptop and discovered money was missing. In fact, they have possession of his laptop and identified money was missing through public blockchain records.”

Re: Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone

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Post by Scoundreller »

tim333 wrote: post #341
Scoundreller wrote: post #333

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m a bit sympathetic to their loss. They were supposed to use 0x notation for a particular hex value, but the software always worked without it. Then some tiny x.x.1 patch upgrade changed the functionality, now requiring the 0x, without documenting the change.

It's scary that with crypto such things can make it so hard to get your money back. I know there was talk of fixing it with a fork to the Ethereum chain one day. Not sure what happened there.

They did that once. I guess this exchange didn’t have enough pull to change the whole “code is law” principle.

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Post by thomasthomas »

g45y45 wrote: post #326
ru999gol wrote: post #277

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considering Monero could you or someone elaborate on this a bit more? Maybe clarify if I'm misunderstanding something: 1) My understanding is, every transaction in bitcoin is public knowledge forever as part of the forever growing block chain. That is, there is no way to ever remove a transfer. 2) The only anonymity built in bitcoin is to hide your identity with pseudonymity, nobody necessarily knows your bitcoin add…

1. correct; 2. correct; 3. Kinda but Not quite the only way -- you can convert the values in the coins into another chain, ideally something like monero in which 1. applies, but 2. does not. (Monero uses a different transaction format called RingCT, it hides the true inputs/outputs among decoys and signs the set with a ring sig. It also hides the true amount transacted via Confidential Transaction encoding using a co…

"Im yet to see one that works as expected"

it might be wasabi wallet. not 100% though

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Post by FatDrunknStupid »

noobermin wrote: post #172
deepspace wrote: post #35

Why is nobody talking about the convicted felon, Omar Dhanani aka Michael Patryn, who is a co-founder and majority shareholder of Quadriga? Dhanani is very much alive, and is known to have been involved in money laundering schemes. If I were an investigator in this case, that is the first door I would go knocking at.

I get the tech around crypto is interesting, but if your whole space is inhabited with such people, isn't it time for you to wonder if something's wrong?

Mmmm. Take a look: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/banks-have-been-fined-a-st...
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