Hey no posting my legal name outside of the investigations thread. Freakin rude man.

Apart from that I guess I'm confused... you're confused by a few things. Me and Tman have had very little interactions, apart from recently in a resource thread I'm working on. The most current listing of trust list they've excluded for nearly as long as LoyceV had been tracking it, if not longer didn't really keep track of that.

Drawing very thin lines to connect the dots between your CH's hypothetical situation and this one is hilarious. What TMAN paid for the debt is irrelevant, people/companies buy debt all the time. Then try and collect it, that's how it goes. I'm not going to try and guess what TMAN has going on in his mind, he is flexing what information he feels he has on the accused scammer to collect what is owed to him.

Now is it extortion... you'd have to get a lawyer and judge to figure it out. The thing is there is no threat of harm here. He is simply stating he will forward along the DOX of the alleged scammer to those investigating him and his accused scam. I don't see there being any harm based on the way Dean has responded, and brushed it off. So telling a public citizen information legally sourced about another through a private discussion doesn't seem to cross any lines.

Blackmailing by the way just misses the mark. It would be done privately and would have to be something like this

TMAN: Hey douche saw that 50 BTC transferred to your wallet address you used 5 years ago
Douche: Aww man my bad, fuck don't tell anyone... especially that super smart TOAA dude.
TMAN: Okay you send me 5 BTC, and a pick of you topless with TMAN is cool written in lipstick with eyes dran at your nipples and we have a deal.