Two Forgotten Architects of Silk Road
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Two Forgotten Architects of Silk Road
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#2Variety Jones is one of those "fogotten architects", who alleges that a corrupt FBI officer is blackmailing him / feeding him inside information in order to gain access a password protected BitCoin wallet worth $70 million that the FBI agent stole from Ross Ulbricht: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/variety-jones-a-corrupt-fbi...
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#3> A hard-working coder, Smed, or “Smedley” as he was otherwise known, had completely reworked key elements of the Silk Road infrastructure, and was being paid $2,500 a week for his services, more than any other employee.
Well that's depressing: he could have made more at a vanilla programming job in California. You know, one that would have zero chance of jail time. Did he fail to price his risk in, or did he just love this project that much?
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#4The people who wrote and compiled information for this article are engaged in speculative vigilantism and snitching. Maybe this info is already known to the feds, or maybe not, and maybe it is factual, or maybe not. Regardless, releasing it does nothing but harm people who don't deserve to be harmed. Stop snitching!
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#5> A hard-working coder, Smed, or “Smedley” as he was otherwise known, had completely reworked key elements of the Silk Road infrastructure, and was being paid $2,500 a week for his services, more than any other employee. Well that's depressing: he could have made more at a vanilla programming job in California. You know, one that would have zero chance of jail time. Did he fail to price his risk in, or did he just lo…
Assuming $2500 is pre tax, yes.
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#6> A hard-working coder, Smed, or “Smedley” as he was otherwise known, had completely reworked key elements of the Silk Road infrastructure, and was being paid $2,500 a week for his services, more than any other employee. Well that's depressing: he could have made more at a vanilla programming job in California. You know, one that would have zero chance of jail time. Did he fail to price his risk in, or did he just lo…
Tax free...
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#7> A hard-working coder, Smed, or “Smedley” as he was otherwise known, had completely reworked key elements of the Silk Road infrastructure, and was being paid $2,500 a week for his services, more than any other employee. Well that's depressing: he could have made more at a vanilla programming job in California. You know, one that would have zero chance of jail time. Did he fail to price his risk in, or did he just lo…
You assume that this person is of legal age to work, a US resident, not a felon, has a decent enough resume to warrant a 6 figure salary, actually wants to live in California, and then conclude that he is an idiot.
That's an awful lot of assumptions.
Re: Two Forgotten Architects of Silk Road
#8Variety Jones is one of those "fogotten architects", who alleges that a corrupt FBI officer is blackmailing him / feeding him inside information in order to gain access a password protected BitCoin wallet worth $70 million that the FBI agent stole from Ross Ulbricht: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/variety-jones-a-corrupt-fbi...
Forum post with a lot more info: http://www.myplanetganja.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11022&star...
(Variety Jones == Plural of Mongoose)
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#9> A hard-working coder, Smed, or “Smedley” as he was otherwise known, had completely reworked key elements of the Silk Road infrastructure, and was being paid $2,500 a week for his services, more than any other employee. Well that's depressing: he could have made more at a vanilla programming job in California. You know, one that would have zero chance of jail time. Did he fail to price his risk in, or did he just lo…
Well, he had the added benefit of not living in California and hence not being taxed to death. Additionally there is the idea that working on something exciting and dangerous is much more intellectually enriching than pumping out some feature for a SaaS product at ABC Corp. Morality/risk is not for me to decide here.
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#10> A hard-working coder, Smed, or “Smedley” as he was otherwise known, had completely reworked key elements of the Silk Road infrastructure, and was being paid $2,500 a week for his services, more than any other employee. Well that's depressing: he could have made more at a vanilla programming job in California. You know, one that would have zero chance of jail time. Did he fail to price his risk in, or did he just lo…
Cost of living in Thailand is a tiny fraction of the costs in CA. 2500$ tax-free a week is more than plenty to both save money and live in perpetual vacation mode in, basically, what a lot of people consider paradise.