Did Someone Solve This 3-Year Old, $50,000 Bitcoin Puzzle?

in #bitcoin7 years ago

Daniel Oberhaus, writing for Motherboard:

On Wednesday morning, one of the most closely watched addresses on the Bitcoin blockchain—known as 1FLAMEN6–was completely emptied of its five bitcoins. This address was associated with the Mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, a puzzle based on a painting created in 2015 by an artist who goes by @coin_artist on Twitter. This suggests that after 3 years, someone was finally able to crack the puzzle to obtain the private key to this wallet address and claim the bitcoins it contained, worth nearly $50,000 at current prices.

Full Article:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evmgvk/mystery-satoshi-nakamoto-solved-1flamen6