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"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain -
John McAfee, the colorful founder of his namesake antivirus software company, as well as a former fugitive and passionate cryptocurrency backer, says bitcoin is headed toward the $500,000 mark within three years.Comment
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Cryptocurrency is the future innit -
"An unknown hacker has used a vulnerability in an Ethereum wallet client to steal over 153,000 Ether, worth over $30 million dollars. The hack was possible due to a flaw in the Parity Ethereum client. The vulnerability allowed the hacker to exfiltrate funds from multi-sig wallets created with Parity clients 1.5 and later. Parity 1.5 was released on January 19, 2017. The attack took place around 19:00-20:00 UTC and was immediately spotted by Parity, a company founded by Gavin Wood, Ethereum's founder. The company issued a security alert on its blog. The Ether stolen from Parity multi-sig accounts was transferred into this Ethereum wallet, currently holding 153,017.021336727 Ether. Because Parity spotted the attack in time, a group named "The White Hat Group" used the same vulnerability to drain the rest of Ether stored in other Parity wallets that have not yet been stolen by the hacker. This money now resides in this Ethereum wallet. According to messages posted on Reddit and in a Gitter chat, The White Hat Group appears to be formed of security researchers and members of the Ethereum Project that have taken it into their own hands to secure funds in vulnerable wallets. Based on a message the group posted online, they plan to return the funds they took. Their wallet currently holds 377,116.819319439311671493 Ether, which is over $76 million."
https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/0...ti-sig-wallets
Fooking awesome - you wake up one morning and all money from yer wallet were stolen by the White HatsComment
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I lost $2000 when mtgox went under, although that was all from coins i mined in a pool previously. I'm fascinated with them from a technical perspective, but from an asset perspective there are too few failsafes for me to jump back in any time soon.Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostI am waiting for MF to invest £10k.
Then I'll wait a few decades more.…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostYou realise there's probably a hedge fund manager reading this forum who is making a killing by hedging against MF.Comment
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Originally posted by greenlake View Post
He's talking about BTC being up 3% the other day. No sh1t Sherlock, most cryptos were down 40% last week.Comment
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Originally posted by greenlake View Post"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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