“I am giving back to the community,” began a tweet sent out by a number of high-profile Twitter users including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and former Vice President Joe Biden. And once inside accounts they made tweet of double your money scam and user sent in bitcoin to hacker wallet address.

The Bitcoin wallet listed in the tweets was soon receiving donations. Between 4PM ET, when the attack began, and 6PM ET, when Twitter locked down all verified accounts to deal with the crisis, more than $118,000 USD had been paid.

Dominik Schiener is co-founder of IOTA, a distributed ledger technology that enables feeless micropayments. He said that while people believe Bitcoin is anonymous, it is really, at best, pseudonymous, since you need a real identity to collect your money. Schiener said that the easiest way to launder Bitcoin is with a Mixing Service like “Bitcoin Blender”

Essentially, the bitcoin blender takes funds from a variety of sources, both clean and dirty, and mixes them up. Then, it pays out small amounts — the Bitcoin equivalent of small change until youve got clean crypto .