This is more than likely a opportunistic scam. Make sure they prove they can move the funds before you attempt any negotiations. If I had to guess I'd imagine this is some of the ETC crowd running low on funds to pump their trash.
RE: Is this the Bitgo/Bitfinex hacker?
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Is this the Bitgo/Bitfinex hacker?
I agree that this is likely just a scammer. Why would the real crooks settle for a 75% loss on their stolen BTC?
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It's also quite suspect that they were originally claiming to have hacked ETC, then the sudden switch to talking about bitfinex.
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As I postulated in the article, it may be someone with inside info but not the actual hacker. I was also confused by them switching it up but I assumed they had potential access to both ETC and BTC but only achieved the BTC attack vector. Aside from insider knowledge, how do you explain them calling the largest hack of the year 3 days before it happened.
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Also, if I was a scammer, I'd just post ambiguous crap like this all the time on a ton of sock puppet twitter accounts. Anyone with any real experience in crypto knows that these kind of hacks happen all the time, so you wouldn't have to wait too long before being able to capitalize on your "foreknowledge" of the event.
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I think the "timing" is simply due to the ongoing ETC-ETH mess, i.e. "they got lucky". This particular group of scammers were trying to claim some massive hack related to ETC to grab the gullible (ETC debacle will cost a lot of people money, IMO), then just retargeted when they saw a better opportunity and decided to capitalize on the coincidence.
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Fair point, that is also a likely possibility.
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