Strangers are begging the Binance hacker for bitcoin, one ‘help me bro’ at a time

CoinDesk · Mon, 02 Nov 2026 05:18:12 GMT

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Excerpt from CoinDesk: “The 19 wallets holding 18,270 stolen BTC have taken in nothing since Thursday except payments worth under a dollar, each carrying a message, from pleas to laundering pitches to a token shill.”

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