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Hacker reveals how he cracked a Bitcoin address
John Cantrell, the developer of Lightning Network messaging protocol Juggernaut, broke open a Bitcoin address yesterday and took the $9,300-worth of coins for himself. But this wasn’t theft, it was part of a game that he won. Now he has revealed how he did it. As Decrypt reported yesterday, Alistair Milne, CIO of the Altana Digital Currency Fund, orchestrated a challenge on Twitter where the winner would get an entire Bitcoin. Starting in May, he periodically published hints to a 12-word seed phrase for a wallet address that contained one Bitcoin. Whoever picked up all the clues could use the phrase to unlock the ... (full story)
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