Fascinating piece of history: in 2011, an anonymous man named Kevin bought 259,684.77 bitcoin for a penny each due to a Mt. Gox hack, intercepted a hacker that was buying it all, and showed incredible self constraint to not claim possession.
A person on bitcointalk by the name of “toasty” made a historic thread in how he discovered that a hacker was placing many orders for a penny while he was selling and buying massive amount of bitcoin which crashed the price from $17.50 to near zero. This person decided to put the $3000 he had…
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