THE HACKER NOW GETS TIPS

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Bitcoin is digital money recorded on a shared public ledger. A payment can also carry a short public note.

Think cash with a sticky note, except strangers can read it and the postage costs money.

Now strangers are using that feature to contact the Binance thief. The internet has apparently installed a tipping screen on a burglary.

According to CoinDesk's November 2, 2026 wallet analysis, 19 wallets hold 18,270 stolen bitcoin that had not moved since October 29. Tiny payments keep arriving with messages attached.

A sender repeated “Help me bro.” across all 19 wallets in 3 rounds, spending about $46 plus fees. None of the messages received a reply.

That's not customer service. That's paying to join the burglar's mailing list.

The inbox also attracted a token pitch from a self-described crypto influencer and messages directing the attacker to a lookalike THORChain swap page. A swap service exchanges cryptocurrencies; a convincing-looking imitation is not proof that a site is safe.

We aren't sharing that address.

Meanwhile, CoinDesk reports that on November 1 the attacker began exchanging 970,522 stolen Solana tokens, worth about $96 million, for bitcoin through Relay, a service for moving funds between crypto networks. Changing the getaway car doesn't return the luggage.

The useful lesson: public records let people inspect these messages, but public visibility doesn't make a message trustworthy. Don't follow unsolicited financial links, and don't mistake access to a thief's inbox for access to their money.

Repost this before the burglar adds a suggested gratuity.

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