Posted on 08/16/2018 8:13:38 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
More than $400 million had seemingly vanished into cyberspace... His work—what he calls “blockchain archaeology”—has become an industry... “You know those documentaries about the Kennedy assassinations, and you see them 20 years later?” Mr. Kelman, the lawyer, remembers telling his partners. “That’s going to be us in 20 years.” ... Soon after, he got an unexpected message. Gary Alford, an agent with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, was known in crypto circles as the investigator who identified the owner of Silk Road, ... Mr. Nilsson passed the name—with a typo—to the IRS agent, Mr. Alford. ... Mr. Vinnik’s future is unclear. The U.S. is trying to extradite him, but Russia objected, saying it wants him back in Moscow to face a €9,500 fraud case. ...
Mr. Nilsson was happy about the arrest, but remains frustrated. He feels he found his guy, but his money is stuck in Mt. Gox’s bankruptcy proceeding. Mr. Nilsson expected bitcoin to let him avoid governments, financial institutions and crooks. Instead he and his handful of bitcoins are embroiled with all three. “It’s a bit of a sad, sordid story,” he say
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Yes, WSJ has a wall, but after a week it is 'out there'.
It wasn't really a BitCoin problem. Mt. Gox is basically a bank. You can keep your BitCoin in your personal wallet, or you can but it in a BitCoin bank for convenience, but then you expose yourself to an added layer of risk over which you have no control.
As far as I know, BitCoin has never been stolen from a personal wallet short of somebody snagging your encryption key.
Yes, WSJ has a wall, but after a week it is ‘out there’.
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Do a Google search on the title to get past the wall.
Do a Google search on the title to get past the wall.
Yes, and I would add searching for a key phrase, the titles sometimes change.
You can also turn off wifi after the page is mostly loaded, and prevent the covering pop up from loading. This only works for one page stories obviously.
I’ve created my own cryptocurrency its called :
ThePonzi
I franchise people to make and sell their own franchise operations for this new currency.
Its now worth $66434476.76 up from $32111476.13 just this morning.
I expect great things from it.
I franchise people to make and sell their own franchise operations for this new currency
That must have taken many hours of work to set up your own blockchain operation.
And after the hardware and energy costs... Some very thin gruel for the franchisees?
Jon Corzine? Is that you? Still above ground, you sob!
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