Liquid Attacker Broadcasts Return Of 3,400 BTC, Keeps 598
The transaction pays 3,400 BTC back to the Liquid federation wallet and 598.50 BTC to the attackers own address. It is unconfirmed and flagged replaceable, and neither side has published anything about the split. The address that emptied Blockstreams Liquid federation wallet on Sunday has broadcast a transaction sending most of the bitcoin back, after a negotiation conducted entirely inside bitcoin transactions. Blockstream has not said anything publicly since Liquids first statement on Sunday evening. Every message it has sent the attacker went into an OP_RETURN field, PGP-signed. The transaction pays 3,400 BTC, worth about $268 million, to the federation address, and sends 598.49955894 BTC, about $47.2 million, back to the address that took it. That is 15% of the 3,998.50 BTC withdrawn. It carries a fee of 1,768 satoshis, a rate of 0.77 satoshis per virtual byte, and all 16 inputs are flagged for replace-by-fee, so it can be replaced with a different transaction while it waits. It was still unconfirmed at 15:50 UTC on Monday. Discover more Finance News Try CAD Software Is That Ok It sent two encrypted messages early Monday, at 01:33 and 01:49 UTC, the second labeled as Electrum BIE1 ECIES encrypted to the key behind the attackers address. At 02:20 UTC the attacker answered









