Binance hacker’s frozen-in-place Bitcoin stash is drawing begging notes and token shills

Strangers are sending sub-dollar payments with OP_RETURN messages to the 19 wallets holding 18,270 stolen BTC The 18,270 BTC stolen from Binance has not budged since Thursday. The wallets holding it, however, have developed an active social life. Strangers keep sending the hacker tiny Bitcoin payments, each worth less than a dollar and each carrying a short note. Some plead for a cut of the loot. Others promote tokens. It is the blockchain version of a celebrity’s comment section, except the celebrity is an alleged state-backed thief. The mechanism is a Bitcoin feature called OP_RETURN. Think of it as the memo line on a check, except the memo gets carved into a public ledger that nobody can erase.

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