No Sean Spicer Didn’t Make Some Secret Bitcoin Transaction (opens in new tab)

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60 pointsaltoz8y ago17 comments

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Thank you for the educational write up! Bitcoin literacy is sorely lacking among journalists, and yet they often forget to contact experts such as yourself...

makomk8y ago

Well, Patribotics is the blog of a conspiracy theorist who thinks everything is part of a vast Trump-Russia conspiracy, so in this case I think it's more simply the result of not wanting to look for details that'd debunk the claims: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/08/is-conspira...

PierreRochard8y ago

TIL! I just saw "Laurelai is an independent journalist"

kleer0018y ago

Oh, I was under the assumption it was a pin or a similar tool that needed to be confirmed from his verifiable twitter acct before the funds were transferred to a previously agreed upon bitcoin wallet.

But that's a stretch.

empath758y ago

Louise Mensch seems to have gotten lucky on one story and it's gone to her head. Her twitter feed is just full of nonsense.

ComputerGuru8y ago

There's a comma missing after "No" in the title, and it's driving me insane.

grzm8y ago

You can contact the mods via the Contact link in the footer. They can update the title if a correction is needed.

altozOP8y ago

Corrected

ibotty8y ago

not what I see.

huac8y ago

What time zones are these things in?

ryan-c8y ago

Bitsig.io and Blockchain.info appear to show everything in UTC. This Gizmodo tweet, screenshotting Spicer, will show up in whatever timezone you set Twitter to https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/824635801657114624 - you can easily verify it's several hours earlier.

glubGlub8y ago

It looks like a wi-fi password.

I harbor a strong intuition that Sean Spicer lacks a certain je ne sais quoi, required to even consider trying to bitcoin.

nonbel8y ago

>'the private key can be determined from the brain wallet string, which is Sean Spicer’s tweet"

So the string was a brainwallet seed? Then he was tweeting about bitcoin afterall. On the other hand, literally any tweet could be made into a brainwallet seed. So, in principle, all tweets are about bitcoin.

ryan-c8y ago

The bitcoin transaction happened hours after the tweet.

nonbel8y ago

Right, I saw that was claimed. I didn't check timezones, etc but assume that is correct. Still, the interesting point remains that any tweet can be turned into a bitcoin-related topic.

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PierreRochard8y ago

Thank you for the educational write up! Bitcoin literacy is sorely lacking among journalists, and yet they often forget to contact experts such as yourself...

makomk8y ago

PierreRochard8y ago

TIL! I just saw "Laurelai is an independent journalist"

kleer0018y ago

But that's a stretch.

empath758y ago

Louise Mensch seems to have gotten lucky on one story and it's gone to her head. Her twitter feed is just full of nonsense.

ComputerGuru8y ago

There's a comma missing after "No" in the title, and it's driving me insane.

grzm8y ago

You can contact the mods via the Contact link in the footer. They can update the title if a correction is needed.

altozOP8y ago

Corrected

ibotty8y ago

not what I see.

huac8y ago

What time zones are these things in?

ryan-c8y ago

glubGlub8y ago

It looks like a wi-fi password.

I harbor a strong intuition that Sean Spicer lacks a certain je ne sais quoi, required to even consider trying to bitcoin.

nonbel8y ago

>'the private key can be determined from the brain wallet string, which is Sean Spicer’s tweet"

ryan-c8y ago

The bitcoin transaction happened hours after the tweet.

nonbel8y ago

Right, I saw that was claimed. I didn't check timezones, etc but assume that is correct. Still, the interesting point remains that any tweet can be turned into a bitcoin-related topic.

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