As part of the investigation into the theft of more than 200 BTC from Bitcoin developer Luke Dash Jr. FBI requested personal information from CoreDev Atlanta meeting participants. Brink co-founder Mike Schmidt said.
Screenshot it letters posted by the creator of the Bitcoin Car Talk video blog under the nickname Mike In Space.
Schmidt recalled that the event took place in October 2022, a few days before the TABConf 2022 conference.
In January 2023, Dash Jr. announced the loss of bitcoins due to the compromise of a PGP key. He did not specify the amount of damage, but the wallet address he shared contained 216.9 BTC. At the time of the attackers’ transactions on December 31, 2022, the assets were worth ~$3.3 million, at the current rate – ~$15.4 million.
Schmidt said he disclosed to law enforcement the names of CoreDev Atlanta members, GitHub handles and email addresses. He was required not to tell anyone about the request for a year. After the deadline, he decided to notify the affected people about the incident.
In conversation with The Block he clarified that he has not contacted the FBI since then.
Dash Jr. is known as an implacable opponent of Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens. He believes that they contribute to the spread of spam on the Bitcoin network.
However, the Ocean mining pool, which the developer co-founded, has left it up to users to decide whether to process blocks containing such non-financial transactions.
Source: Cryptocurrency
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