▼Negotiated Attacker Fees Become Standard Practice

Score history

Daily conviction score, 0 to 100. Higher means the thesis is more strongly corroborated.

Now 34 · -6 since Sep 13 · ranged 34 to 40

Why the conviction moved

• Sep 14
  Weakened

  Symbiosis offered a 20% white-hat bounty that expired on September 13 with no return, and the protocol instead recovered roughly 15 BTC itself into a team multisig. The negotiated-fee mechanism failed here: the attacker declined a bounty set well above the customary 10%.

• Sep 13
  Strengthened +6

  The Liquid attackers returned 3,400 of roughly 4,000 bitcoin taken from Blockstream's federation wallet and unilaterally kept exactly 15 percent, about $47 million, as a self-declared finder's fee. The attacker setting the percentage — above the customary 10 percent whitehat norm — is the pricing mechanism the thesis describes operating without the victim's consent.

Source trail

• Contradicting · September 14, 2026

  Symbiosis Bridge Attacker Minted 46 Billion Fake Bitcoin Tokens and Realized About $336,000

  Symbiosis offered a 20% white-hat bounty that expired on September 13 with no return, and the protocol instead recovered roughly 15 BTC itself into a team multisig. The negotiated-fee mechanism failed here: the attacker declined a bounty set well above the customary 10%.

  CryptoSlate

• Supporting · September 13, 2026

  Blockstream Demands the 598 Bitcoin Liquid Attackers Kept as a Self-Declared Finder's Fee

  The Liquid attackers returned 3,400 of roughly 4,000 bitcoin taken from Blockstream's federation wallet and unilaterally kept exactly 15 percent, about $47 million, as a self-declared finder's fee. The attacker setting the percentage — above the customary 10 percent whitehat norm — is the pricing mechanism the thesis describes operating without the victim's consent.

  Bitcoin Magazine