This past Friday, Bloomberg TV anchor Matt Miller took an on-air opportunity to give the gift of Bitcoin to two of his fellow anchors during his "12 Days of Bitcoin" segment.And in a beautiful twist of karmic justice, punishment for running such an absurd segment in the first place, every last digitally invested cent was stolen immediately.Each of the anchors were to receive $20 worth of the digital currency, but all that went down the drain the second anchor Adam Johnson absentmindedly exposed his QR code of the private key to the camera, which is basically like giving someone your debit card and writing down the pin number for them.So naturally, a Reddit user by the name of milkywaymasta immediately snatched the Bitcoin and bragged about it online: The guy that is hosting the series gave bitcoin gift certificates to the other two hosts.One of them opens up the certificate to reveal QR code of the private key.They then proceeded to show a closeup of the QR code in glorious HD for about 10 seconds.

Hilarious.I took it, it was only $20 worth.It was exhilarating nevertheless.I'll send it back once Matt gives me a new address since someone else can sweep the old one.A segment on Bitcoin security and the importance of NOT showing the private key and also BIP0038 (Password Encrypted Private Keys) Wallets will be more than enough compensation.Blockchain confirmation and Public key of where i sent the bitcoin.To Miller's credit, he's agreed to let milkywaymasta keep his hard-earned cash.Although judging from how the $20 of Bitcoin was stolen in the first place, chances are none of the anchors would know what to do with it even if they had it.[Reddit via Business Insider]It’s the virtual currency equivalent of letting a national TV audience have your debit card and giving them the PIN number.Bloomberg News TV anchor Matt Miller found this out the hard way when he gifted “bitcoin certificates” to co-anchors Trish Regan and Adam Johnson during a segment.Everything would have been fine and dandy had both the public key (above) and the private key (below) in QR code form used to redeem the certificates not been shown on the air.

And it didn’t even have to be captured from TV as the video on the segment is here.bitcoin konto kostenlosThat gave a reddit user by the name of “milkywaymasta” an idea.litecoin costHe claims to have taken the certificates (only worth $20) and suggested Bloomberg run a segment on the importance of not showing the private keys on the air.bitcoin bulbRecently, bitcoin lost half its value after China’s central bank was the target of a cyber attack, with the state media suggesting that angry bitcoin investors may be to blame.btc bitcointalkThe currency last traded around $687 after peaking at $1,240 on Dec.bitcoin banned in bangladesh

4, according to bitcoin exchange Mt.litecoin windows 8Follow The Tell on Twitter @thetellblogbitcoin calculator transaction feeEnlarge this image toggle caption A bitcoin exchange in Hong Kong has been hit by a major theft: Nearly 120,000 units of the digital currency were stolen.1 bitcoin rate in 2020At the time of the theft, that was worth about $72 million, Reuters reports.ethereum release timelineBut the value of bitcoin has dropped by more than 20 percent since the news of the theft broke.It's not clear who stole the bitcoin from the exchange platform Bitfinex or how they did it, the wire service reports.The funds were taken from users' individual accounts, or "wallets."

The amount of bitcoin involved is approximately 0.75 percent of all the currency in circulation, Reuters says.Bitfinex has shut down its platform while the exchange cooperates with law enforcement to investigate "the causes and consequences" of the security breach, according to a blog post from the company.Planet Money Bitcoin Divided: A Civil War Behind The Scenes "The security breach comes two months after Bitfinex was ordered to pay a $75,000 fine by the U.S.Commodity and Futures Trading Commission in part for offering illegal off-exchange financed commodity transactions in bitcoin and other digital currencies," Reuters reports.The Bitfinex hack is "one of the largest thefts in bitcoin's short history," The Wall Street Journal says.In 2014, the bitcoin economy was badly shaken by a theft at the Mt.Gox exchange in Tokyo.About 850,000 bitcoin were stolen — nearly half a billion dollars at the exchange rate at the time.And this June, a separate virtual currency — ethereum — saw a theft of about $60 million, the Journal reports.

Bitcoin stolen during on-air newscast by at-home viewer The digital currency known as Bitcoin has taken part in a newscast in which a fellow by the name of Matt Miller is robbed wirelessly, on live television.Of course Miller didn’t know he was being robbed – and in fact since he was giving gift certificates with Bitcoin on them to his co-anchors it was more like they were getting robbed, but the end result is the same.Herein lies a lesson in understanding how QR-codes work.A Reddit user by the name of milkywaymasta was watching a Bloomberg segment called “12 Days of Bitcoin” this week.To end the segment, Bloomberg’s Matt Miller decided it’d be a nice gesture to give his co-anchors a gift certificate filled with Bitcoin.Each of these gift certificates worked with a private, unique QR-code.One anchor held their gift certificate up to the camera for a closeup “in glorious HD for about 10 seconds.” Well over the amount of time milkywaymasta needed to capture the QR-code for himself by simply taking a photo of the television screen and scanning it – or just scanning the screen as it was shown live.