After consulting with minerpart I will report these threats to blackmail and extort money from companies on Bitcointalk to an FBI Field Office.
We believe a crime has already been committed, but if this poster actually proceeds to Troll because no money has been paid to him, then certainly things will be serious enough for an investigation.
I will start a thread to collate the relevant posts and if anyone sees any Trolling from the member 'pankkake' after today can you please quote them on the thread which I will link to here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=344208.msg3687965#msg3687965This is a terrible idea. I think it can be filled under "wasting police time" and that can come with hefty fines.
It is not wasting police time in the slightest. If you think a crime has been committed then you can of course report it to the authorities. If you lie about what has happened/report it as worse than it was in order that they take it on as a case, and then it becomes apparent that you've lied, THEN you are wasting police time (and likely a couple other things).
You are not wasting police time by reporting something that turns out not to be a crime. The general public is not expected to know the ins and outs of criminal or civil legality.
Either way, can we just let cooler heads prevail and chalk this up to someone attempting something he found humourous (which wasn't really all that funny) and just leave it at that? I highly doubt he expected to actually generate revenue from the stunt, and he's well aware that it takes 5 seconds to ban him from the thread altogether.
How about we ALL just give this shit a rest and focus on something more constructive.