$50,000 Bitcoin Puzzle
On Thursday morning, a closely watched Bitcoin wallet address known as 1FLAMEN6 had a surprise transaction that drained the account of its five bitcoins, worth nearly $50,000 at the time. This Bitcoin wallet belonged to a crypto artist who goes by @coin_artist on Twitter, but she wasn’t despairing about the lost bitcoins—in fact, she was ecstatic.
When Christine and her team originally placed the key to the Bitcoin wallet into the digital painting, the wallet contained 4.87 Bitcoins