Motherboard reports on a strange Bitcoin "lottery" that is now claimed to be a marriage proposal.
Strange event #1: someone claiming to be the anonymous hacker who stole 119,000 Bitcoins from the Bitfinex Bitcoin exchange announced a "lottery" to win 1000 Bitcoins on Reddit, garnering over 7000 responses on the thread from people posting their Bitcoin addresses on the chance that this was somehow legit.
Strange event #2: the Reddit poster actually sent 1000 Bitcoins to the address of one of the users in the thread. Almost immediately the money was sent from that destination to yet another address, one with a public note attached that says "Please send me some money. I'm very poor."
Strange event #3: the poster on Reddit who received the money emerged, admitted to knowing the original poster (not surprising), and revealed that somehow this entire event is some sort of wedding proposal to her (very surprising).
I'm not sure what to think of this. If it's a scam I'm not quite sure who got ripped off.
Previous Coverage: Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex has been hacked. 119,756 BTC Stolen
(Score: 3, Funny) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday August 18 2016, @07:37PM
Oh I don't know. I'm still kicking myself for not becoming a sucker when I first heard about it. Who'da guessed that if I had mined/bought up a few thousand or say 10k or 20k and held on to them (no idea how realistic that would have been in, what was it, 2010 when I heard?), all my problems could be solved by new suckers today, including my not-owning-an-Aventador problem. :)
(Note to self for weekend project: start up bitcoin exchange, grow it until it has some huge amount of bitcoins, become victimized by an "anonymous hacker," wait a little while for BTC to recover, buy a car wash [Breaking Bad wouldn't have lied to me about how that works, right?], and never mind me when this account claims to have won the lottery!)
(Score: 3, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Thursday August 18 2016, @07:48PM
My get rich quick scheme involves selling my 4-digit uid when Soylent hits 1 million subscribers.
NOW DONT ANY OF YOU TRY TO COPY ME.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday August 19 2016, @12:01AM
That implies we can change our names around here. I don't think we can. Can we?
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday August 22 2016, @02:17PM
You can't. Someone would start posting as me, and I would create a new account.
Apparently there were account sales or transfers on the green site.
I have no idea why.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh