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Re: Laptop used to seize Bitcoins from 2016 Bitfinex heist now at the Smithsonian
by
nullama
on 10/12/2024, 09:33:43 UTC
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I don't see how tourists would be interested in going to see the laptop. Like what are the significant of the laptop being in the museum? The story is well documented and everyone can assess the information from their devices they don't need to fly all the way to be told the story. Yes the figures involved here are huge but this won't be the first high fund heist and I believe we won't want every heist story be put in a museum.

This is partly explained in the article...

They want to showcase Bitcoin, but usually they find it difficult to display physical things about it, because of course everything about Bitcoin is digital, so it's tricky to display Bitcoin in a museum.

I guess by using this item, a laptop, they can tell the story of how Bitcoin works, and how the heist and everything else happened.