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Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK

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Re: Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK

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What if a portion of those sent coins are sent to attacker-owned wallets?

If it's a non-negligible amount compared to other wallets, that would be pretty easy to track down. I mean, you'd look at new wallets compared to existing wallets.

The attackers can still poison new wallets that appear on the chain - either you effectively shut down new wallet creation, or let the attackers possibly spend their coins.

Re: Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK

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The idea that one must download the entire blockchain makes maintaining a wallet very difficult Totally false. There are plenty of wallets that allow you to connect to a decentralized network of servers hosting the blockchain. Electrum, Multibit to name a few.

maybe, but I don't recall encountering any of these years ago

They have been around for over 5 years. I used them 5 years ago..
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