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75 sats \ 1 reply \ @cointastical 7h \ on: US Wants To Keep 127,000 BTC In Largest Forfeiture in History bitcoin
Has there been info as to how the USG gained physical (or whatever you want to call it) control of the coins?
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Other criminal proceeds included the Defendant Cryptocurrency, which was stored in unhosted cryptocurrency wallets whose private keys the defendant personally held. The defendant maintained diagrams recording the process by which some of the Defendant Cryptocurrency was laundered.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 6h
That's a good question, I've asked myself the same thing. I don't think that info's been made public, so it's all just speculation right now.
I watched a video yesterday by an Brazilian YouTuber who's into info security and he's a Bitcoiner. He was saying it might have been an exploit using an old, known vulnerability in the primary key generation where the entropy was low, apparently only like 32 bits.
I can't explain it properly either, but it seems like they managed to figure out what software was used to generate that wallet's private key, and then they just did a brute force to find the actual key.
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