Two consequences:
1.A lot of bad FUD will come out of this story. "if even an OG bitcoin- core developer" cannot take his Bitcoin safe, who on Earth will be able to do so?"
That's the first thing I've thought about after reading achow101 reply stating that is is indeed real, this is just giving unlimited ammunition to critics, if the guy that helped develop the code, that for sure is more knowledgeable about risks and security, what about the uneducated that are risking everything, I can almost hear 1 million Helen Lovejoy screaming!
But I'm still not entirely convinced of this story, not because of the haking part, the coins moving etc, but this line in his tweet..
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[email protected] on Mastodon @LukeDashjr
What the heck @FBI@ic3 why can't I reach anyone???
9:19 PM · Jan 1, 2023
This feels like trolling, why would you tweet that? For sure he knows better than everyone how a complaint is filed and how you deal with it, but tweet about this?
But assuming this is real, stay away from bitcoin knots fro a while (I doubt that many were using it in the first place)
That's how you might verify that your Bitcoin Knots or Core download isn't infested with malware.
So to be clear: DO NOT DOWNLOAD BITCOIN KNOTS AND TRUST IT UNTIL THIS IS RESOLVED.
If you already did in the last few months, consider shutting that system down for now.