Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dash Jr has keys stolen, loses hot wallet BTC

[bartosimpsonio]

Bitcoin hacker and core developer Luke Dash Jr had his private keys stored under PGP.

It seems like his PGP keys were compromised and an attacker gained access to some of his Bitcoin holdings

https://twitter.com/x/status/1609613748364509184

No way to know how much BTC he had, since the stolen funds were mixed.

The destination wallet has 216 Bitcoin in it, which is about 3.6 million dollars.

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/1YAR6opJCfDjBNdn5bV8b5Mcu84tv92fa
No way to know how much of that belonged to LDJ but on his Twitter profile he asks for donations and a while back there was a fundraiser to help him. So....taking his word about it, I assume he probably doesn't own most of that.

Funny tho the funds are just sitting there.

Another core dev has independently verified that LDJ indeed posted those tweets. There was initial skepticism over the whole story.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1609655629903265795

Some folks advocated not keeping coins in own wallets. Not sure what the implied alternative is, but Binance CEO liked the idea:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1609699067038146561

Not sure what to make of it, but it seems to me like even expeerienced devs can make silly mistakes. Somehow his PGP keys were compromised, which could've happened in a thousands different ways.

Or could there be something more sinister at play here? Government testing quantum decryption? Advanced spyware? We can only guess.

So far Bitcoin price gone up, not necessarily related to the news, but it seems like the markets aren't spooked by the hack.

 

[Crypto Marketing]

Remember when this guy had a gofundme for hurricane damage to his house, which he was insured for?

https://tuurdemeester.medium.com/fundraiser-for-luke-dashjr-2a4c0afb96a8
And then added a stretch goal to upgrade his internet after the initial goal of 5 BTC was met?

And he was a multi millionaire the whole time?

Maybe he were part of an unfortunate "boating accident" just before the tax season.

 

[Elvlin]

Remember when this guy had a gofundme for hurricane damage to his house, which he was insured for?

https://tuurdemeester.medium.com/fundraiser-for-luke-dashjr-2a4c0afb96a8
And then added a stretch goal to upgrade his internet after the initial goal of 5 BTC was met?

And he was a multi millionaire the whole time?

Maybe he were part of an unfortunate "boating accident" just before the tax season.

for real lol?
why people feel the need to donate to millionaire? when is gofundme? maybe btc is cheap at that time

 

[Project Limitless]

Bitcoin hacker

Lulz.

 

[Crypto Marketing]

for real lol?
why people feel the need to donate to millionaire? when is gofundme? maybe btc is cheap at that time

Yeah. If this guy has 216 BTC on a hot wallet, I really like to know how many BTC he has in cold storage.

Mixed things online about him, apparently he started in Bitcoin around 2011. Had over 400 BTC in Mt.Gox but in September 2017 there was a gofundme to help repair his house that may or may have not been damaged during a hurricane. Also a couple of conspiracies about him possibly being somebody named Cobra in the Bitcoin community.

Seems like this isn't the first time this guy makes the news about losing bitcoin..

 

[Cypherpunk Zero #4027]

He should have tagged the IRS in that twitter post. "lost my keys in a boating accident" lol

 

[bartosimpsonio]

for real lol?
why people feel the need to donate to millionaire? when is gofundme? maybe btc is cheap at that time

We don't know how much Bitcoin he owned. The 216 is a grand coinjoined total off a bunch of random inputs.

The fact of the matter is the attacker now controls 216 BTC in a single address.

Yeah. If this guy has 216 BTC on a hot wallet, I really like to know how many BTC he has in cold storage.

Mixed things online about him, apparently he started in Bitcoin around 2011. Had over 400 BTC in Mt.Gox but in September 2017 there was a gofundme to help repair his house that may or may have not been damaged during a hurricane. Also a couple of conspiracies about him possibly being somebody named Cobra in the Bitcoin community.

Seems like this isn't the first time this guy makes the news about losing bitcoin..

Interesting to look into. He claims he was covid sick the past few weeks. Also his twitter pinned post is a request for donations. So he doesn't seem wealthy.

He should have tagged the IRS in that twitter post. "lost my keys in a boating accident" lol

Lots of theories going around about this. Also for some reason it took him over 24 hours to report the theft. He said he was bed sick with covid. Not doubting him, just...the conspiracies are possible, hopefully not likely.