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Everybody's stupid sometimes, and it only takes once to do you in.


Mostly true. Hans Reiser and Ross Ulbricht were smart folks who got caught nonetheless.

But not always true. No one's figured out Satoshi Nakamoto yet.


Reiser: murderer, Ulbricht: drug dealer, would be (indirect) murderer. For completeness sake we could add mr. Madsen but his case hasn't gone through yet though I think he will come out as guilty as they come for now we are required to give him the benefit of the doubt. Nakamoto - if he even is an individual - has not been charged with any crimes.


Where’s the indictment and warrant for Satoshi Nakamoto? Who is even looking for him/her other than armchair internet slueths?


May be he is not indicted but he is sitting over quite a bit of virtual cash so I bet there is a lot o criminals that would like to have a chat with him.


Nakamoto is also not a criminal, so there's less will to uncover their identity.

But yes, you're correct it's not a forever and always thing.


And less ability. Private citizens don't have the ability to subpoena records.


The common trait of those two is not smarts but that they were each much less smart than they thought they were.


Didn't they find a "how to get away with murder" book in Reiser's car?

And 'ol Ross had a whole journal of his illegal activity sitting right on his hard drive.


Didn't they find a "how to get away with murder" book in Reiser's car?

They did and the bananas thing is he also very nearly did get away with it anyway - a plea deal under which he could have walked away with time served + a few months was available to him. Fortunately, his own hubris got him 15 to life.


> No one's figured out Satoshi Nakamoto yet.

Just because nobody has published it?


"No one's figured out Satoshi Nakamoto yet."

Is that a fact?




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