MULTI-SIG, CROWDFUNDING AND INTERNET COMMUNISM OR WHAT I LEARNED BY POSTING MY PRIVATE KEY ONLINE
A very curious social experiment by our new author. Watch him leave an open wallet at the center of a figurative street splitting the community in half. Complete with applicable conclusions as a result of the experiment. Yesterday, I broke the cardinal rule of bitcoin, I shared my private key online. Not just with one person either, but with the entire r/bitcoin subreddit. As you most probably would have guessed, it was instantly drained. A few people were kind enough to toss almost two dollars worth of bitcoin at the account, but that too was drained almost as soon as it was put in. Why I....
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