Bitcoin core developer Luke Dashjr said he lost “basically” all his BTC stash to the compromise of his PGP key in a Jan. 1 Twitter thread.
Dashjr did not reveal the amount of BTC he lost to the alleged hackers. He said some of his BTC was co-joined with the wallet “1YAR6opJCfDjBNdn5bV8b5Mcu84tv92fa.”
Blockchain explorer showed that the wallet transacted four times and holds 216.93 BTC — worth roughly $3.6 million — as of press time.
Dashjr said he had no idea how the malicious players accessed his PGP keys. PGP keys employ an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication.
Dashjr added that his attempts to reach law enforcement agencies had been futile so far.
Community tries to explain the incidence
Crypto-security experts have raised several theories behind the compromise.
Blockchain engineer Peter Todd posited that Luke might not have been a victim of a targeted hack. Todd added that Luke didn’t keep different activit
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