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What about that bitcoin wallet that was blurred on TV and they managed to reverse engineer it?

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https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41737248

> Two French hackers used their computer skills to reconstruct a blurred-out code on TV and claim bitcoins worth $1,000 (£760).

It was Bitcoin cash, so the 3 are worth, today, ~$1320.

I think the hackers could have made more money if they got real jobs doing valuable work.

The money they _directly_ got out of this might not have been their only motivation.

Funny they say bitcoins when 1 bitcoin was at least $1000 back then. I'm pretty sure the usual grammar rules apply so you can't use the plural unless you have at least 2 bitcoins. Super minor but interesting how a vastly deflated currency that is super divisible can mess with our usual language.

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