No Sean Spicer Didn’t Make Some Secret Bitcoin Transaction
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Re: No Sean Spicer Didn’t Make Some Secret Bitcoin Transaction
#2Thank you for the educational write up! Bitcoin literacy is sorely lacking among journalists, and yet they often forget to contact experts such as yourself...
Re: No Sean Spicer Didn’t Make Some Secret Bitcoin Transaction
#3>'the private key can be determined from the brain wallet string, which is Sean Spicer’s tweet"
So the string was a brainwallet seed? Then he was tweeting about bitcoin afterall. On the other hand, literally any tweet could be made into a brainwallet seed. So, in principle, all tweets are about bitcoin.
Re: No Sean Spicer Didn’t Make Some Secret Bitcoin Transaction
#4Thank you for the educational write up! Bitcoin literacy is sorely lacking among journalists, and yet they often forget to contact experts such as yourself...
Well, Patribotics is the blog of a conspiracy theorist who thinks everything is part of a vast Trump-Russia conspiracy, so in this case I think it's more simply the result of not wanting to look for details that'd debunk the claims: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/08/is-conspira...
Re: No Sean Spicer Didn’t Make Some Secret Bitcoin Transaction
#5>'the private key can be determined from the brain wallet string, which is Sean Spicer’s tweet" So the string was a brainwallet seed? Then he was tweeting about bitcoin afterall. On the other hand, literally any tweet could be made into a brainwallet seed. So, in principle, all tweets are about bitcoin.
The bitcoin transaction happened hours after the tweet.
Re: No Sean Spicer Didn’t Make Some Secret Bitcoin Transaction
#6>'the private key can be determined from the brain wallet string, which is Sean Spicer’s tweet" So the string was a brainwallet seed? Then he was tweeting about bitcoin afterall. On the other hand, literally any tweet could be made into a brainwallet seed. So, in principle, all tweets are about bitcoin.
The bitcoin transaction happened hours after the tweet.
Right, I saw that was claimed. I didn't check timezones, etc but assume that is correct. Still, the interesting point remains that any tweet can be turned into a bitcoin-related topic.
Re: No Sean Spicer Didn’t Make Some Secret Bitcoin Transaction
#7Thank you for the educational write up! Bitcoin literacy is sorely lacking among journalists, and yet they often forget to contact experts such as yourself...
Well, Patribotics is the blog of a conspiracy theorist who thinks everything is part of a vast Trump-Russia conspiracy, so in this case I think it's more simply the result of not wanting to look for details that'd debunk the claims: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/08/is-conspira...
TIL! I just saw "Laurelai is an independent journalist"
Re: No Sean Spicer Didn’t Make Some Secret Bitcoin Transaction
#8Louise Mensch seems to have gotten lucky on one story and it's gone to her head. Her twitter feed is just full of nonsense.
Re: No Sean Spicer Didn’t Make Some Secret Bitcoin Transaction
#9Oh, I was under the assumption it was a pin or a similar tool that needed to be confirmed from his verifiable twitter acct before the funds were transferred to a previously agreed upon bitcoin wallet.
But that's a stretch.
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#10What time zones are these things in?