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No Sean Spicer Didn’t Make Some Secret Bitcoin Transaction

by altoz on 5/1/17, 11:12 PM with 17 comments

• by PierreRochard on 5/1/17, 11:29 PM

  Thank you for the educational write up! Bitcoin literacy is sorely lacking among journalists, and yet they often forget to contact experts such as yourself...

• by kleer001 on 5/2/17, 1:24 AM

  Oh, I was under the assumption it was a pin or a similar tool that needed to be confirmed from his verifiable twitter acct before the funds were transferred to a previously agreed upon bitcoin wallet.

  But that's a stretch.

• by empath75 on 5/2/17, 1:23 AM

  Louise Mensch seems to have gotten lucky on one story and it's gone to her head. Her twitter feed is just full of nonsense.

• by ComputerGuru on 5/2/17, 3:10 AM

  There's a comma missing after "No" in the title, and it's driving me insane.

• by huac on 5/2/17, 2:01 AM

  What time zones are these things in?

• by glubGlub on 5/2/17, 2:40 AM

  It looks like a wi-fi password.

  I harbor a strong intuition that Sean Spicer lacks a certain je ne sais quoi, required to even consider trying to bitcoin.

• by nonbel on 5/1/17, 11:40 PM

  >'the private key can be determined from the brain wallet string, which is Sean Spicer’s tweet"

  So the string was a brainwallet seed? Then he was tweeting about bitcoin afterall. On the other hand, literally any tweet could be made into a brainwallet seed. So, in principle, all tweets are about bitcoin.