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Quote from: anthello on November 22, 2017, 04:23:10 AM

Has anyone heard of a hack or attempted hack on Bitcoin

You have to be more precise with your question. Do you mean either 1) Bitcoin/Blockchain itself being hackable or 2) Anything related to BTC (including your stored btc) being hackable?

1) Bitcoin itself is not hackable in any way. BTC is "just a code" running on a lot of distributed computers around the world. There are no flaws and also no vulnerabilities which could be exploited.
2) Wallets, your pc (containing your coins), exchanges, websites (containing btc in any form) are always "hackable" (or to be more precise: they are vulnerable to exploits). You won't get 100% security in wallets, web applications, ...

If you store BTC's right and use your common sense when transacting with bitcoins, you (and your btc's) won't get "hacked".
I hope this clears things up. If i missunderstood you, feel free to awnser with a more precise question.

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Hacking is everywhere, maybe bitcoin is being attacked by hackers from time to time but I never heard of a successful hacking on bitcoin. There where news that their bitcoin was stolen by other people but it was not stolen on the block chain. We can say that bitcoin was hacked when someone was able to get a bitcoin from a transaction or bypass the confirmations on the block chain but for now all the hacking incidents was a fault on the end of the users.

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Quote from: freightjoe on November 22, 2017, 04:33:55 AM

Quote from: CryptosapienZA on November 22, 2017, 04:32:24 AM

Quote from: anthello on November 22, 2017, 04:23:10 AM

Has anyone heard of a hack or attempted hack on Bitcoin

People attempt to hack bitcoin everyday. All have lost and will never win. I think i will say todate bitcoin is unhackable.

fake news. Many people in here have lost money due to hacking.
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How are you going to hack bitcoin if the confirmation of each transaction is coming from all of the users of bitcoin? Or are you pertaining to the hacking incidents that happened to some exchanges that only means that what they attacked was the exchanges but not the block chain technology that bitcoin uses.

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Quote from: freightjoe on November 22, 2017, 04:41:40 AM

To the people who have lost a lot of money it really does not matter what the technical details are. It really does not matter. fact is they bought bitcoin - they got hacked - the money was lost. End of story.

Techno-types like you always end up blaiming the user for anything bad that happens so you can protect your precious ivory tower.

No one is blaming the user. It's just that saying that "Bitcoin has been hacked" is misleading and exactly the kind of misinformation that leads to people not properly protecting their cryptocurrency holdings. It shrouds the issue in ignorance and therefore disrupts any meaningful discussion about it.

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Quote from: freightjoe on November 22, 2017, 04:23:50 AM

Quote from: anthello on November 22, 2017, 04:23:10 AM

Has anyone heard of a hack or attempted hack on Bitcoin

Many have lost money by being hacked. Many have also told about it in this forum

Also many have lost money investing on some scam ICO

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Quote from: HDAMMO on November 22, 2017, 05:15:57 AM

LOL if bitcoin gets hacked it will probably go back to $1

Sounds terrible Grin

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LOL if bitcoin gets hacked it will probably go back to $1

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You need to somehow distinguish between Bitcoin and Blockchain. Blockchain is merely a technology, and can't be hacked as such. Though security may get compromised. However, I'm having a really hard time imagining this will ever happen. Whether or not Bitcoin has been attempted hacked. I have no idea. What I do know, however, is that if anyone should every succeed in hacking Bitcoin core systems, they'd end up with a lot of bitcoins that, by then, would be completely worthless. So a hack of Bitcoin, would render the currency completely worthless, thereby eliminating anyone's desire to do it. People looses their wallets to hacks, disk crashes and the likes all the time. But that's probably more fair to say, that Windows, Linux, Mac OS etc. was hacked, and data stolen.

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That's not surprising. This is a common situation. One of my friends has been hacked into 10 bitcoins. Hackers hate people, we have to do a good job of wallet backup, try not to use paper wallet, it is easy to leak passwords and keys. My advice is to use the hardware wallet as much as possible.

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Quote from: freightjoe on November 22, 2017, 04:23:50 AM

Quote from: anthello on November 22, 2017, 04:23:10 AM

Has anyone heard of a hack or attempted hack on Bitcoin

Many have lost money by being hacked. Many have also told about it in this forum

Hackers are just right there waiting for a chance for the right guess of the secret codes. But this is only intended for personal accounts. Bitcoin System hacking is very rare as hackers knew that its suicide for them. Bitcoin system established with all protection that makes it hard for the hackers to manipulate.

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Quote from: Amial on November 22, 2017, 04:51:52 AM

Quote from: anthello on November 22, 2017, 04:23:10 AM

Has anyone heard of a hack or attempted hack on Bitcoin

I think its really fake news, cause its impossible

I'm totally agree

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Quote from: anthello on November 22, 2017, 04:23:10 AM

Has anyone heard of a hack or attempted hack on Bitcoin

I think its really fake news, cause its impossible

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Quote from: anthello on November 22, 2017, 04:23:10 AM

Has anyone heard of a hack or attempted hack on Bitcoin

Anywhere in online or in the internet were always have a hacker i think bitcoin was really good benefit and expensive so that the hackers got into it. There are many ways of hacking a bitcoin so think carefully the site the one you click please very carefully if you don't want to loose tour preloved bitcoin also please be careful on the scammers

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Quote from: anthello on November 22, 2017, 04:23:10 AM

Has anyone heard of a hack or attempted hack on Bitcoin

What?
I don't believe its true

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Quote from: anthello on November 22, 2017, 04:23:10 AM

Has anyone heard of a hack or attempted hack on Bitcoin

Its interesting, I don't hear anything about hack

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Are you talking about hacks on individual wallets or attacks on the blockchain/devs etc themselves? Anyways, there have been a lot of different hacks, scams and all kinds of other things in the past. We are living in the wild wild west right now. Shocked

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Quote from: talkbitcoin on November 22, 2017, 04:38:00 AM

Quote from: anthello on November 22, 2017, 04:23:10 AM

Has anyone heard of a hack or attempted hack on Bitcoin

there has been lots of hacks of web wallets, online wallets with no security measures, exchanges and things like that. but none of these are "hacking bitcoin" itself.

To the people who have lost a lot of money it really does not matter what the technical details are. It really does not matter. fact is they bought bitcoin - they got hacked - the money was lost. End of story.

Techno-types like you always end up blaiming the user for anything bad that happens so you can protect your precious ivory tower.

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Quote from: anthello on November 22, 2017, 04:23:10 AM

Has anyone heard of a hack or attempted hack on Bitcoin

there has been lots of attempts to hack bitcoin, break the cryptography, find the private keys to an address (which is impossible), ... and lots of other types of attempts but all have failed. and will continue to fail because the cryptography that is used by bitcoin is unhackable.

don't listen to the idiots such as @freightjoe who are spreading FUD.

there has been lots of hacks of web wallets, online wallets with no security measures, exchanges and things like that. but none of these are "hacking bitcoin" itself.

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Quote from: CryptosapienZA on November 22, 2017, 04:32:24 AM

Quote from: anthello on November 22, 2017, 04:23:10 AM

Has anyone heard of a hack or attempted hack on Bitcoin

People attempt to hack bitcoin everyday. All have lost and will never win. I think i will say todate bitcoin is unhackable.

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fake news. Many people in here have lost money due to hacking.

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Quote from: anthello on November 22, 2017, 04:23:10 AM

Has anyone heard of a hack or attempted hack on Bitcoin

People attempt to hack bitcoin everyday. All have lost and will never win. I think i will say todate bitcoin is unhackable.

Quote from: Mr.Smithers on November 22, 2017, 04:25:27 AM

Quote from: anthello on November 22, 2017, 04:23:10 AM

Has anyone heard of a hack or attempted hack on Bitcoin

sure, there was a kind of DoS attack on Bitcoin last week from Bitcoin Cash. They basically spammed the BTC network with 100k+ transactions driving the transaction fee up to 20$

Then there will be those who come to bitcoin.org to spam other people's posts... Just as hackers have failed hacking bitcoin, they will fail too.

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