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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:

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Stephen Katte / Cointelegraph:

Luke Dashjr, an original core developer of Bitcoin, claims someone stole “basically all” his BTC by compromising his PGP key; a wallet shows ~217 BTC were moved — A Bitcoin OG and core developer Luke Dashjr claims his PGP key was compromised, resulting in virtually all his Bitcoin being stolen from him on Dec. 31.

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Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:

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