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240 sats \ 8 replies \ @optimism 9 Sep \ parent \ on: Liquid hacker: "You shall pay for your dereliction of duty" bitcoin

I guess not indeed. They're declining a $1.5M bounty, which would be a top 10 (3?) all-time bounty payout across everything that ever was coded in the history of mankind. 10% makes it the top1 by 3.2x, because currently the biggest bounty ever was $10M for a responsibly disclosed wormhole vuln.

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168 sats \ 7 replies \ @ek 9 Sep

As I read it, Blockstream wants everything back and is thus not willing to pay anything. Is that a wrong interpretation of the situation?

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121 sats \ 5 replies \ @optimism 9 Sep

Wrong interpretation. You should always put everything back and get the bounty paid with non-stolen funds. The 1.5M is the bounty offered, I'm 99% sure. So "they're not willing to pay anything" is a bad assumption on your part, I think.

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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichrome 9 Sep

He doesn't want to give everything back hoping to get something in return because he doesn't want to trust, he wants to verify 😅

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147 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 9 Sep

The “(maybe even 0)” made it sound like it might not be a bad assumption.

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115 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 9 Sep

That refers to them not having received it yet? I wouldn't pay squat to anyone holding 15% of funds hostage either.

As little as 3 months ago my former security list got blackmailed for 500k USDC including ethereum address. And that was one of countless. So I guess I am biased.

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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter 9 Sep

The hacker is afraid that they won't pay him the bounty if he releases he remaining coins.

1.5 million for 5 billion assets is kinda 0 in hacker's eyes. Because he isn't sure...maybe the blockstream guys indicated something to him with disrespect.

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 13h

Hacker must be from India?

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103 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 9 Sep

100% this is the interpretation

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