On 07/05/2011 08:07 PM, Taral wrote:
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Adam Back<a...@cypherspace.org> wrote:
I dont think you can prove you have destroyed a bitcoin, neither your own
bitcoin, nor someone else's. To destroy it you would have to prove you
deleted the coin private key, and you could always have an offline backup.
Actually, it's pretty easy to create a transaction whose outputs are
obviously unsatisfiable.
So this suggests the attacker who pwned Mt. Gox was probably doing it
"for the lulz" as they say. (Or maybe they didn't know about this property).
Next time they might just take all the bitcoins held in escrow by the
exchange and transfer them to /dev/null.
- Marsh
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