Where Did WikiLeaks' $25 Million Bitcoin Fortune Go? (thedailybeast.com) 85
Everyone from early investors to cybercriminals has benefited from the huge spike in the value of bitcoin in the past few weeks. It's a boon for one other outfit that has likely racked up tens of millions of dollars' worth of the cryptocurrency: WikiLeaks. Joseph Cox, reporting for The Daily Beast: The transparency organization may be sitting on a stockpile of bitcoin valued at around $25 million, and has likely exchanged several other large cryptocurrency caches for fiat cash, according to two sources who independently analyzed WikiLeaks's bitcoin transactions. "Last wallet looks like his piggy bank," John Bambenek, a security expert who has previously tracked Neo-Nazis' use of bitcoin, told The Daily Beast, pointing to a specific bitcoin address believed to be linked to WikiLeaks. Since at least 2011, WikiLeaks has allowed supporters to send bitcoin donations. As noted by James Ball, a journalist and former WikiLeaks staffer, whoever is in control of this address -- presumably WikiLeaks -- moved around 3,000 bitcoin, worth $800 each, into a series of other accounts on one day in December 2013.
It's probably in the blockchain. (Score:1)
It's probably in the blockchain.
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It's probably in the blockchain.
Any day now. Unless someone is willing to pay a higher transaction fee, then a couple more days.
What's with Slashdot's "nazi" obsession lately? (Score:3, Interesting)
Between this submission and this other submission [slashdot.org] that's currently on the front page, the word "nazi" appears 8 times!
Do you know how many times "linux" appears on the front page right now? Zero!
Do you know how many times "programming" appears on the front page right now? Zero!
"internet" only appears twice.
Are Slashdot's editors just imitating the mainstream media and leftists, who have been falsely accusing all sorts of people of being "nazis" lately?
Frankly, this kind of misuse of the term "nazi" only serves to dilute the meaning of that term.
It's getting to the point where when people hear the term "nazi" and they just figure it's yet another false accusation made to attack a political opponent, the shrug their shoulders, and ignore it.
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And still no UTF-8 support.
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The encoding clearly identifies AppleDevice users who don't know how to configure them. That's a plus, actually. It flags those individuals to "the rest of us." [youtube.com]
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Fortunately, the German for National Socialist German Worker's Party doesn't require an umlaut or eszet or anything that Slashdot can't display easily.
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"You are literally Hitler!"
'literally' ?
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
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So 8 Nazi can't use Linux because of a division by zero exception?
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Are Slashdot's editors just imitating the mainstream media and leftists, who have been falsely accusing all sorts of people of being "nazis" lately?
Yes.
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Is it the mainstream media and leftists - or the alt-right folks that apply the term to themselves, and then get reported about. I mean there were those Hitler salutes in Charlottesville, weren't there? Of course, a few noisy neo-nazis in your organization may get the whole thing (unfairly?) branded as a nazi enterprise - but you're not denying that neo-nazis exist and are becoming more visible and vocal around the world are you?
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Perhaps. But they're already getting amplified plenty on talk radio, etc. So, I guess the mainstream media has to decide between ignoring them as nut jobs - or alerting the rest of us that they're out there. Ignoring them doesn't seem to have worked very well. Most of 'us guys' had no idea how many White Supremacist / Neo-Nazis there were until we started seeing televised Trump rallies - which were truly scary spectacles. And then he won...
So perhaps a bit of alarmism is called for at this point.
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Stop being such a Linux Programming Nazi.
Stop being such a Linux Programming Nazi, Nazi and I'll stop being such a Linux Programming Nazi Nazi, Nazi!
It's Nazis all the way down.
https://youtu.be/HPXHRX8Q2hs [youtu.be]
Strat
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That's because linux users aren't as likely to kill anyone, and they're much less fun to punch.
Also, Windows Vista is the nazi's OS of choice.
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That's because linux users aren't as likely to kill anyone, and they're much less fun to punch.
The good news is that the imaginary armies of killer Nazis roaming your neighborhoods don't actually exist. The bad news is that violent leftist thugs actually do form groups specifically to go out and hurt people and destroy things, and then actually do it, and get applauded by their sponsors for doing it.
The other good news is that people are waking up to the reality of the situation's phony narratives. The bad news is that you approve of preemptive violent assault as a form of political expression.
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Americans killed by Nazis in 2017:
Heather Heyer
Taliesin Namkai Meche
Ricky Best
Richard Collins III
Timothy Caughman
Srinivas Kuchibhotla
Buckley Kuhn-Fricker
Scott Fricker
Americans killed by anti-fascists: 0
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His bump stocks all had Pepe stickers on them.
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The back side of Antifa flags always have Pepe logos on them. When they flap in the wind is when the riot starts.
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How are we supposed to solve this violently if nobody uses preemptive violence?
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Frankly, this kind of misuse of the term "nazi" only serves to dilute the meaning of that term.
"More than you like" is not tantamount to mis-use. Someone who is inspired by Nazi ideology or imagery is at least a "neo-nazi" by any reasonable standard. And in the context of this article, it's entirely appropriate: Neo-nazi groups are groups that the researcher in question has tracked. If this were the 1960s the flavor of the decade would have been "Maoist", but we live in an era where Naziism is making a comeback, and people are tracking it.
As for your keyword count, it's almost laughably naive. Mos
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Somebody who is inspired by Nazi imagery is an idiot-fanboy. Or somebody into cosplay.
Anybody who is inspired by Nazi ideology is just a plain idiot. It's fun in your adolescence to latch onto crap that explains why all the older people are dumb, why history is over and that there's a simple 'plan' that can just be adopted by force to fix everything. That's how 'neo-liberals' and 'neo-cons' are born. The Democratic and Republican party are full of those fools. We have a lot of them here on Slashdot, to
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I wouldn't underestimate the power of idiot-fanboyism. This is basically a somewhat less sterile term for authoritarianism.
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Not a plain idiot, a Nazi idiot. There's plenty of idiots who aren't Nazis, so we need to distinguish.
A fashion industry for words. (Score:5, Interesting)
The term of choice used to be "racist", but that's been so overused in the past year and a half that they have to switch to using another word.
I've been following the zeitgeist of this. Until around December of last year, people would flee from the word, conceding the argument to whoever first uses the word to describe the other side. Then in December people started ignoring the word a little, then Jan/Feb people were like "meh" about it, and around March people started (note: started, not widely) embracing the word.
Then "OK, I'm racist" started popping up, but it wasn't really attached to the *person*, it was attached to the position. One could say "OK, I'm racist" for posting an opinion about strong immigration control. Or "OK, I'm racist" for posting an opinion about limiting visas or voter ID.
Through the summer, "racist" started to be applied to just about everything. Tigers [foxsports.com] are racist. Perfectionism [rolereboot.org] is a form of racism. Two white parents having a white child [foxnews.com] is racist. I'm not making that last one up, it's "[...] one of the most powerful forces supporting white supremacy" - don't you know?
Now racist has completely lost its meaning. No one online seems to pay any attention to it at all.
Sexual assault is pretty big right now, but it's fading fast. It was a flash in the pan with people like Harvey Weinstein, but quickly got more ridiculous. You can tell it's on it's way out because Fart rape [squawker.org] is a thing.
(Side note: "Trump is literally Hitler" is pretty-much dead, the last nail in that coffin was recognizing Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel.)
So now they need a new word, and it's probably going to be nazis for awhile. Expect this to go on for a couple of months and get progressively more ridiculous, probably though the primaries of next year.
Then Ramadan comes up (May 15 to June15), many terrorist actions will make the news cycle(*), and it's likely that "Islamaphobe" will be the word of the day.
It's basically the fashion industry for words.
(*) Just extrapolating from past years, such as last year viz. London. OK, I'm racist.
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Wikileaks understands keeping 3000 Bitcoin in one wallet address is stupid.
When will journalists actually bother to learn how cryptocurrency works?
WHY is it stupid? Perhaps because it's too easy to steal and there isn't any FDIC [wikipedia.org] for Bitcoin?
Re:Bitcoin Addresses != Unique Individuals (Score:4, Informative)
WHY is it stupid? Perhaps because it's too easy to steal
It's HARD to steal, unless they are amateurish in their key management practices.
Use dedicated hardware-wallets with optional BIP39 Passphrase + Strong PIN + Strong physical security.
If they're concerned about insider attacks, then they can use a special procedure to generate credentials where No one person ever gains access to sufficient credentials to authorize a transaction.
For example: Suppose the wallet is a Trezor.
You need two items to operate the device: BIP39 Passphrase to open the wallet, and PIN number to authorize each transaction.
You would need two items to recover or clone the device: 24 Recovery words and BIP39 Passphrase
Person 1 will make up and personally secure the 48-character random passphrase, and give the first 16 characters to Person 2 and Person 3, AND give the next 16 characters to Person 4 and Person 5, and finally Person 8 and Person 9 will receive the rest of the passphrase.
Person 2, Person 3, Person 4, and Person 5 begin the initialization process for the wallet and begin selecting an 8-digit PIN number.
Person 2 and Person 3 handle choosing and entering the first 4 digits of the PIN and their share of the passphrase, then Person 4 and Person 5 handle entering the next 4 digits of the PIN and their share of the passphrase, then Person 8 and 9.
For wallet recovery: The 24 seed words will be divided into 3 shares.
Person 1, Person 2, and Person 3, Person 8 will write down and personally secure the first 8 words
Person 4, Person 5, and Person 6, Person 9 will write down and personally secure the next 8 words
Person 7, Person 8, and Person 9, Person 10 will write down and personally secure the last 8 words
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So, for most people, it's not hard to steal. Got it.
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So, for most people, it's not hard to steal. Got it.
No way did I say not hard to steal for most people.... difficulty varies. First of all, because it's a company, you have to distinguish between an INSIDER and an OUTSIDER stealing coins. WikiLeaks has some apparently intelligent people who know enough something about IT, GPG,
and keeping secrets (Until they leak them), so I think they should have the abilities required to EASILY prevent outsider theft.
Insider theft is also easy to prevent if they
Someone's got to pay for JA's room and board (Score:2)
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It's certainly risen to more than Hillary can afford.
Which is a lot, mind you.
Fiat cash? (Score:3, Insightful)
The term is real money. Using the term "fiat cash" makes the author sound like a pretentious ass who's trying to be oh so leet.
No one in normal, every day usage uses the term, "fiat cash". If we're going down that route, we should use a term such as electronic markers to describe bitcoin and the like.
Re:Fiat cash? (Score:5, Funny)
That is money used to buy an Italian car.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Re:Fiat cash? (Score:5, Insightful)
In the US, real money is defined as gold or silver, as is similar in the Constitutions of several states and the Bretton Woods Agreement.
Historians, economists, and traders use the term 'fiat' all the time, but this may be the first time any of them were accused of being 'leet' rather than 'nerds'.
Why do you have a burr up your ass about a particular economic term?
Fiat cash? (Score:3, Insightful)
In the US, real money is defined as gold or silver, as is similar in the Constitutions of several states and the Bretton Woods Agreement.
Historians, economists, and traders use the term 'fiat' all the time, but this may be the first time any of them were accused of being 'leet' rather than 'nerds'.
Why do you have a burr up your ass about a particular economic term?
In addition, he's attacking the author (he sounds pretentious!) and not the substance of the article, or even the reliability of the information given.
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[[Citation Needed]] - and no weasel words or using gold bugs, bitcoin zealots, or other nut jobs as references either.
That's because you're confusing academic and professional usage (the 'nerds') with coll
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Historians, economists, and traders use the term 'fiat' all the time
Bet they don't in everyday life. e.g. 'hey Jimmy, do you have your lunch fiat-currency?' 'honey - do we have any fiat currency to pay the cleaner?' 'Sorry mate, I'm low on fiat currency, could you get this round in?'
Re:Fiat cash? (Score:4, Insightful)
No one in normal, every day usage uses the term, "fiat cash"
Because in normal every day usage, that's implied.
But in a discussion where you talk about non-fiat money, it becomes useful to make the distinction explicit.
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It's a pointless distinction... Because everyone but Bitcoin zealots know that Bitcoin isn't actually money. There's no inherent store of value, such as being backed by gold, nor is it backed by the economy of a nation. It's sole value lies in the Faith of the Believers - other than that, it's not conceptually really any different from an arcade or casino token.
The submitter uses that term for one reason only; to inflate Bitcoin into something it's patently not. It's an appeal to emotion, not academic o
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No one in normal, every day usage uses the term, "fiat cash".
s/in normal,/normal in/
Assange Lives! (Score:2)
Same story in every publication. Sure, why not. (Score:1)
"Bitcoin is for nazis"
This same story is being pushed in every mainstream news outlet.
What a coincidence. I guess they all detected at the same exact time that this is what all their readers really want to read and that they have to run this story to make money. "Conspiracy theories" are clearly of no use here.
Bonus points: casually imply that Wikileaks are neo nazis.
Literally everything - media, education, politics - is being taken over by psychotic brainless drones trained on leftism. It's far, far past t