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Bitcoin Account Holder Loses $100K Over Public Wireless Network

posted by janrinok on Sunday November 26 2017, @01:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the gone! dept.

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https://api.cointelegraph.com/amp/v1/news/bitcoin-account-holder-loses-100k-over-public-wireless-network

An unidentified 36-year-old man who owns a Bitcoin account has lost more than 100,000 euros ($117,000) worth of Bitcoins while he was logged in on a public wireless network in a restaurant in Vienna, Austria.

The Austrian police, however, claimed that they are still investigating whether the victim's account was already hacked before he opened his account on the unsecured network, CBS reports.

This latest case reflects the growing concern over the security of digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum amidst their growing popularity as a mode of payment.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by nitehawk214 on Sunday November 26 2017, @05:18PM (2 children)

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Sunday November 26 2017, @05:18PM (#601768)

    Bitcoin was cool before libertarians got a hold of it.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @05:39PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @05:39PM (#601771)

    Not only were libertarian ideas about money baked into the very rules of Bitcoin, but Satoshi noted the usefulness of the libertarians as a vector for spreading Bitcoin, and most of the "core" developers would describe themselves as libertarian.

    Bitcoin has direct connections to the Cyberpunk movement, which is indisputably libertarian is nature.

    So... I guess you think Bitcoin was never cool, because libertarians have had control of it from the very beginning.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @07:04PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @07:04PM (#601790)

      Firken poly-morphously perverse racists! Libertardiantari-ists!