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by honzzz 4601 days ago
It might be interesting to note that someone in the discussion under the original article (an unregistered user going by the name 'The one who knows') claims that "the admin of bitcash.cz Carlos upset the czech hacker comunity SooM.cz and accordingly to Blockchain (https://blockchain.info/tx/44f66e60460926d1ac75667ce30604290...) it looks like those hackers donated all the BTC that was on bitcash.cz to wikileaks".
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Retro 4601 days ago
That's not the bitcoin address listed on the wikileaks website. The only mention of the address was on bitcoin-charity.info where it was connected to wikileaks but that's now offline. Seems suspicious that only one website had that address listed.

Edit: From the 'wikileaks' account listed on bitcoin-charity.info 150btc each were sent to 2 other addresses listed on that site. An african charity 'Amani Kinderdorf' and a 'Nonprofit Recycling and Exchange Network'. It seems like (though the charities are real) the bitcoin links are not related to them and bitcoin-charity.info was a scam site. (google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bitcoin...)

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altero 4601 days ago
If all BTC are on single place, it could be possible to recover them. Seems like well documented case, both parties are in civilized countries and court could take it.

Soom.cz is not very reliable source. Also Czech Linux community does not mention anything.

But according to some users it did not even used SSL!!!

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saraid216 4601 days ago
> But according to some users it did not even used SSL!!!

It's never going to stop amusing me that Bitcoin's big selling point is how it's this amazing form of applied cryptography... and the people who actually try to do this kind of thing cheerfully neglect security concerns that seem rather basic.

It's not hard to explain this phenomenon, but it's still amusing.

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