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Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone

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Post by Scoundreller »

BenjaminBlair wrote: post #302
908087 wrote: post #202

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That "award" ceremony video is both surreal and ridiculously cringe-inducing at the same time. It wouldn't surprise me if he actually felt like he had "achieved" something when he gave himself that award, either. It was like you were watching his fantasy of what people would say about him if he was a productive member of society instead of a criminal and fraud.

When you have the chance to fulfill your childhood wet dreams fantasy you go for it. Those fake claps, the huge bouquet, beautiful ladies...

Placebos work even when you tell people they’re placebos.

I’m sure he went to bed proud pulling all that off. It still looks like a lot of work.

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Post by dredmorbius »

kkarakk wrote: post #282
dredmorbius wrote: post #219

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Patience, grasshopper: https://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=blockchain

wow literally no fiction, either documentaries or theorycrafting

IMDB's search is limited to titles, and the trend is still relatively new.

A search of synopses and/or other elements might produce something closer to the original request, though I'm not aware of a good resource for this.

The fact that there are multiple extant and in-production projects does suggest some general interest, though.

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Post by Scoundreller »

tim333 wrote: post #116
LeonM wrote: post #48

My take on this is that they probably were insolvent for a long time already due to previous hacks/theft. The CEO just decided to lie about the supposedly 137M in funds 'safely' stored on his laptop. This is also what happened at MtGox, except that at MtGox they 'lost' wel over a million BTC. Edit: relevant listening: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/9/

Kraken had like a two hour podcast coming to much the same conclusion as the most probable explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB0OQae4fWo It seems the problems may have started with a software screw up, leaving the "0x" off the ether address. https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6ettq5/statement_... which lost them I think 67,317 ETH permanently. Ah the wonders of cryptocurrency. https://www.reddit.com…

I’m a bit sympathetic to their loss.

They were supposed to use 0x notation for a particular hex value, but the software always worked without it.

Then some tiny x.x.1 patch upgrade changed the functionality, now requiring the 0x, without documenting the change.

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Post by ru999gol »

g45y45 wrote: post #326
ru999gol wrote: post #277

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considering Monero could you or someone elaborate on this a bit more? Maybe clarify if I'm misunderstanding something: 1) My understanding is, every transaction in bitcoin is public knowledge forever as part of the forever growing block chain. That is, there is no way to ever remove a transfer. 2) The only anonymity built in bitcoin is to hide your identity with pseudonymity, nobody necessarily knows your bitcoin add…

1. correct; 2. correct; 3. Kinda but Not quite the only way -- you can convert the values in the coins into another chain, ideally something like monero in which 1. applies, but 2. does not. (Monero uses a different transaction format called RingCT, it hides the true inputs/outputs among decoys and signs the set with a ring sig. It also hides the true amount transacted via Confidential Transaction encoding using a co…

thanks for your clarification i appreciate it

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Post by mirimir »

puranjay wrote: post #206
mirimir wrote: post #178

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They can only do that if they know who you are. So make sure that they don't!

Oh they already know who you are. Too late to fight that fight

Of course they know my meatspace identity.

And maybe someone knows that Mirimir is meatspace me.

But Mirimir is only a semi-anonymous persona. And I don't count on being anonymous as Mirimir.

However, I've had thousands of other personas, over the years. Mostly all using some mix of nested VPN chains and Tor. Some using Mixmaster remailers as well. Many I only used for a few days, or maybe for a month.

I doubt that anyone knows all of the connections. Or even enough to trouble me substantially.

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Post by swivelmaster »

Arn_Thor wrote: post #268
tim333 wrote: post #102

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And the widow is left with just the 17 properties, 2 cars, yacht and plane that he earned through honest hard work. Another thing you could work into the plot is $9m appears to be with WB21 "Banking Redefined" which claimed a million users but was discovered to only have 135 downloads of its app (now removed), is run by a convicted fraudster and was awarded "Global Banker Award 2018" in a black tie ceremony that they…

The applause echoes so tellingly in the mostly empty room..

It also fades in rather than starting. They took a longer applause clip and started in the middle. As someone with a lot of audio production experience, this stuck out to me immediately. So either they used stock audio or there was an edit they didn't hide properly (or both).

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Post by swivelmaster »

lygaret wrote: post #297
MisterTea wrote: post #287

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> The head of the orphanage was the mastermind The orphans are the mastermind. The headmaster was nothing more than two kids in a suit. They're all on a beach sipping capri sun playing nintendo switch.

They had a long day at the business factory, and just want to relax and watch R-rated movies for a while.

Hey look it's uhhh.... Vincent ... um... Adultman!

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Post by JVIDEL »

SNACKeR99 wrote: post #307
ljm wrote: post #255

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SCP Twist: the orphanage itself was the mastermind; it manifests when a blockchain fintech startup launches and exists solely to de-materialise the founders and redistribute crypto funds. The children of the orphanage are yet to be identified, though it is speculated that they are the disappeared fintech founders.

Plot twist: the adoption of the orphans is in fact the canonical blockchain transaction and the recent slowdown in verifications is due to a lack of orphans. This need for more orphans is the fuel for global warfare ultimately turning the purpose of humanity into that of being slave to the blockchain.

This sounds like something Kojima would write for another Metal Gear game.

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Post by JVIDEL »

gowld wrote: post #196
selimthegrim wrote: post #63

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There are several documentaries on YouTube exploring how easy it is to fake death certificates in, say, Delhi. Search for ‘quacks’

Before YouTube/cruptocurrency got big, Delhi was known for its counterfeit industry for winning "first to invent" patent fights. There are companies that have stocks of decades or century-old paper that they use to forge aged government documents. I can't find a link to a story at the moment :-(

Got more on that?

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Post by JVIDEL »

dmitriid wrote: post #259
fixermark wrote: post #217

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Are y'all still keeping all your assets on only one planet? Wow, that's risky.

-- skipping a few steps -- Confined to only three dimensions? Pfft.

Your assets are only in regular matter?

Get on my level kid...

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