New CSW "block 9" scam - Hal Finney's old privkey compromised

https://twitter.com/checksum0/status/1063495918970970114

"Someone got hold of @halfin first bitcoin address private key, spend from it in 2017, and encoded a message in late october into the last transaction. They will try to claim it's an address Satoshi owned and the message is coming from him. Uneducated people will believe them. " @checksum0 10:16 AM

Checksum0 calls the fraudsters plans already prior to it actually happening. A mere 15 minutes, there's a tweet from the @satoshi account (belongs to nChain likely) and then soon after, CalvinAyre tweets it pretending like it's relevant.

https://twitter.com/CalvinAyre/status/1063513039989813248

"Signature from Key 9?....Satoshi Lives...likely upset at Bitmain and http://Bitcoin.com for attacking Bitcoin." @CalvinAyre 11:24 AM


Good eye from checksum0 to call this scam out before it even goes live.

Simply put, old of the old private keys from Hal Finney has been compromised, and CSW+Calvin will now try to leverage their access to that key (and the @satoshi twitter account).

Be ready, and don't fall their bait.

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source https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/9xppoy/new_csw_block_9_scam_hal_finneys_old_privkey/

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