How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin • Hacker News Board

Re: How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

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Post by anyfoo » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 1:56 AM UTC

dantillberg wrote: post #18

hanniabu wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you’ve got interesting technical analysis... FYI, not sure if english is your first language or not but this should be "If you have interesting technical analysis..."

"If you've got" may not be formal "correct" English, but everyone understands it and it's used quite commonly in daily speech (and writing). I would wager that "if you've got" may actually be preferable to "if you have," in order to engage the reader at a more comfortable, personal level.

So correct, that I distinctively remember learning it from school books in English class in Germany.

Re: How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

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Post by hippich » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 1:57 AM UTC

SlowRobotAhead wrote: post #42

hirundo wrote: post #33

This may be the plutonic ideal of a Hacker News story. It's also sort of a Travis McGee story but the salvage consultant is a cryptographer.

It got me with SoftIce. Although I never thought to print them out; I needed to watch all the registers change as I was doing similar work or reverse engineering encryption schemes.

I did not have a printer at that time. Notepad with a lot of addresses and registers' values... Also, did not realize one can print from the SoftIce directly, as I assumed it run at the lowest level before all the printer drivers. Certainly, it would be super useful!

Re: How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

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Post by kortilla » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 2:14 AM UTC

How could you be sure you didn’t just help heist someone’s bitcoin that this Russian snatched with some malware?

Re: How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

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Post by ronyfadel » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 2:22 AM UTC

tyrust wrote: post #60

brailsafe wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Working in easy or boring stuff for a lot of money is nice if you need it, but miserable if you're an intrinsically motivated person.

One can exercise motivation outside of work.

It’s hard to do when you get home with 0 brain power left after working for 8-10 hours straight doing mind-numbing work

Re: How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

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Post by clwk » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 2:28 AM UTC

kleer001 wrote: post #40

sireat wrote: post #5

The author is a very talented applied cryptographer with a very impressive resume (he is looking for new projects). The following CV line stands out however: Google: Software Engineer, Ads Review. June 2014– March 2016. Angular / Java developer on the internal tool used by contractors to review Google ads for policy violations. How did that saying about "brightest minds working on ads" go? I am not blaming the author…

> How did that saying about "brightest minds working on ads" go? The sentiment is a bit older than ads. It goes: " I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters a…

Fuckin' Moloch.

Re: How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

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Post by beamatronic » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 2:46 AM UTC

”Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. if my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this is liberating. He no longer has to worry about trying to be the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.”

Re: How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

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Post by mrosett » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 2:50 AM UTC

projektfu wrote: post #27

FroshKiller wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Native American English speaker. "If you've got" like this is perfectly idiomatic.

You’ve got mail! —native English speaker

Ha! Case closed I believe.

Re: How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

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Post by Blake_Emigro » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 2:53 AM UTC

andrepd wrote: post #63

wyattpeak wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're misparsing the sentence: "If you’ve got interesting technical analysis [or optimization] problems". "Technical analysis" is an adjective, not a noun.

So I am. I was reading off the GP's (incomplete) quotation it seems.

FYI, not sure if english is your first language or not but this should be "If you have interesting technical analysis..."

I'm not sure if English is your first language, but this should be, "if you have interesting technical analysis..."

Everyone can pick apart the mistakes of others, find mine!

Re: How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

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Post by sneak » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 3:15 AM UTC

shanusmagnus wrote: post #68

If some random Russian dude shows up and offers to pay $100k to crack something with untraceable digital currency inside, don't you worry about getting killed if you fail to do it? Maybe I watch too much TV.

This is racism.

Re: How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

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Post by brailsafe » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 3:31 AM UTC

_se wrote: post #61

brailsafe wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Working in easy or boring stuff for a lot of money is nice if you need it, but miserable if you're an intrinsically motivated person.

Being bored for 10 hours a day when you have the capability to do so much really is terrible. Couldn't agree with you more.

I'm kind of in this situation now, and it doesn't feel super great to be sort of trapped in a golden handcuffs kind of situation. The effect would be less intense if it weren't an entirely mental exercise.