Man Who Mistakenly Sent 800 BTC to Mt. Gox Address Recovers His Bitcoins
Remember that post we had at the beginning of June that related to a man who mistakenly sent 800 bitcoins to the wrong address? If you haven't, check it out here. In brief though, we had happened was a user by the handle of 'TheDJFC' has created a post on social sharing website Reddit.com explaining his epic failure. Not only did he send his bitcoins to the wrong address, he sent them to an address belonging to defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. Interestingly enough, however, the story has an update - and it's a good one. 'TheDJFC' took to Reddit on the 4th of July to update the community,....
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Mistakes: Interview with the Man that sent 800 BTC to Mt.Gox. Quite recently, a man that goes by the Reddit handle of TheDJFC, mistakenly sent 800 BTC to the same address which he sent 300 BTC earlier this year. At current prices, this sums up to around $688,600 for 1100 BTC. The man has evidence to back his story up; transaction can be seen on the blockchain. He reached out to the Bitcoin Community over at Reddit, making a post about it to see if anybody could help him out, seen here.
Short Answer: A Bitcoin address is a unique number that "holds" bitcoin currency. You use the address to receive and send bitcoins. Medium Sized Answer: A Bitcoin address is the public key half of the public-private key pair that enables the validation of ownership of that address. WHOAH there, what in tarnation does that mean?? Bitcoin addresses are created as part of a key generation process that creates a pair of keys. They are a matched set, where one is public and the other is private. When you "sign" a bitcoin address you are running the public and private keys through an algorithm....