To contribute something a bit more on topic (sort of), "whale eater"
loaded is going back to court tomorrow. A thread titled "@RogerVer lets make a deal. At least 60k, my BTU for your BTC." was necro-bumped with some interesting revelations that potentially explain why loaded backed out of the deal. It's a doozy in bitcoin history.
The only article about this is at WSJ and that's behind a paywall (fuck you, Bezos!)
I remember Loaded from back in the day, now I'm curious to find out wtf happened with him.
I also remember Loaded from back in the days, posting in this thread.
Him being arrested is kind of old news, but him getting sentenced is news to me. Here's a couple of articles of him getting busted -- not behind a paywall.
https://www.wired.com/story/silk-road-bitcoin-seizure-james-zhong/https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-unmasks-hacker-who-stole-50-000-bitcoins-from-silk-road/I remember discussing this seizure a few years back. Here's the original
post I think. Linking to a page that U.S. Justice Department seized ~69k BTC.
My response to that was
here, suspecting that the seizure was related to one of Ross' associates. Man, was I wrong.
I wonder what sentence he'll get. Giving up 50k+ BTC should be enough though, damn.