Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

https://twitter.com/Anthony/status/1526228511018598401?s=20&t=ATeVLB2SDx5JxkEpZDV8JQ

Boxturret posted:

also the email was something like frossty@hotmail.com, frossty being a nickname he had

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

Never forget that the feds staged an argument between a couple of people to distract Ross and an agent swiped his laptop when he left it unlocked while going to see what was going on.

Boxturret posted:

https://i.imgur.com/xLo7fAr.mp4
https://i.imgur.com/6raW5fI.mp4
https://i.imgur.com/m4MzV1p.mp4

Boxturret posted:

https://i.imgur.com/m4MzV1p.mp4

HappyHippo posted:

I had to move out of my city,
I’m staying at a hotel in a casino rn.
My old house they burned to the ground..

Soylent Pudding posted:

Wasn't the entire thing improvised? Like they had the sting set up somewhere else but his laptop was dying so he went to the library and they just winged it?

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

https://twitter.com/Anthony/status/1526228511018598401?s=20&t=ATeVLB2SDx5JxkEpZDV8JQ

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Forth Worth, Texas, for example, will soon be running bitcoin mining rigs in city hall.

quote:

No models currently exist for how US cities can incorporate cryptocurrencies into their economies and government operations. But Stanley argues that MiamiCoin will be used for local business transactions, facilitate software development, and even one day furnish a source of a universal basic income for residents. Stacks is also running an accelerator program for CityCoins, and recently accepted 11 new companies to build gaming, educational, and financial apps for its cities.

Even as MiamiCoin’s price plummets, Stanley insists that it can and will have practical applications soon.

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In an interview, he acknowledged legitimate criticisms of cryptocurrencies, a space rife with scams, deceit, and puffery, but insisted CityCoins is an exception, a rare crypto product with transformative potential. “One type of person thinks that everything in crypto is a scam,” Stanley told Quartz. “Another type of person thinks ninety-nine percent of crypto is a scam but one percent is insanely important. I’m in that latter group. Bitcoin, Stacks, Ethereum, CityCoins. That all falls in that one percent of projects that are not only not scams, but incredibly important.”

Beeftweeter posted:

iirc he ran the entire thing from a library so he wouldn't use his actual network connection

Shame Boy posted:

lmao

help the entire city council died of heat stroke

Shame Boy posted:

lmao

help the entire city council died of heat stroke

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

Never forget that the feds staged an argument between a couple of people to distract Ross and an agent swiped his laptop when he left it unlocked while going to see what was going on.

Adolf Glitter posted:

It was usually a coffee shop, but there were no seats that day so he used the library, leading to the cops who were cosplaying as hobos to improv an argument

Shame Boy posted:

soon! there's gonna be a miami metaverse or something i bet! just you wait and see!!

there are two types of people in the world: those that think everything in crypto is a scam, and people about to be ripped off

Boxturret posted:

Beeftweeter posted:

lol i figured i forgot more details. were they arguing about how busy the coffee shop is?

sharknado slashfic posted:

Was it Ross that got poison ivy getting a plastic bag out of a tree or something

quote:

authorities say Dread Pirate Roberts asked the undercover agent posing as a drug dealer to murder "chronicpain". (The initial deal was for torture, but he later decided to up the ante.) DPR agreed to pay $80,000 for the admin's death -- $40,000 up front and $40,000 when the deed was done. Investigators staged the torture and killing -- which included mock waterboarding according to officials -- and sent Dread Pirate Roberts about half a dozen pictures, including photos depicting what they said was his corpse.

Law enforcement officials won't acknowledge that Green is the admin that Ulbricht allegedly paid to have killed, but when asked to describe how the "dead" admin, "chronicpain", looked in the staged images, one official says, "He looked very pale."

DaTroof posted:

yeah, he documented that in his journal somewhere among his receipts for research chemicals and contract killings

https://www.wired.com/2015/01/silk-road-trial-undercover-dhs-fbi-trap-ross-ulbricht/ posted:

Later that month, Deryeghiayan flew to San Francisco, and on October 1st met up with the New York-based FBI team led by agent Christopher Tarbell. The FBI agents had watched Ulbricht as he worked the day before at a coffee shop near his home called Bello Coffee. So Deryeghiayan says he set up near the cafe with a laptop connected to the Internet via a mobile hotspot, and then went into the cafe to charge his laptop's battery. All the while, he was closely watching the "dread" name on Staff Chat, which remained online.

At 2:47pm, "dread" went offline, Deryeghiayan says, the cue that Ulbricht was leaving his house for his favorite public wifi connection. Deryeghiayan alerted the FBI agents and left the cafe to sit on a bench on the same block.

As Deryeghiayan and FBI agent Tom Kiernan watched from just a few feet away, Ulbricht walked up to the corner with a "small shoulder bag" containing his laptop. He waited for the light to turn green, then crossed and went into Bello Coffee. Thirty seconds later, he left the crowded cafe, seemingly to find a quieter spot, and headed for the Glen Park Public Library just one street north.

The FBI followed Ulbricht into the library, and Tarbell sent an email to the team, telling them to "make sure to pull the laptop first, then arrest," according to Deryeghiayan. He added that the team should "give time to the [undercover agent] to chat [with Ulbricht] before anyone initiates an arrest."

At 3:08pm, Ulbricht opened up his computer at a table in the library, and "dread" came online. With his laptop open and logged on to Staff Chat, Deryeghian walked over to library and up one of its stairwells to a discreet spot. Then he started a carefully planned conversation designed to make sure Ulbricht logged into a part of the Silk Road site designed for moderating comments flagged as spam. ("We were trying to get him online as DPR in the market as well as chatting," Deryeghian says.)

cirrus: hey can you check out one of the flagged messages for me? dread: you did bitcoin exchange before you worked for me, right? cirrus: yes, but just for a little bit dread: not any more then? cirrus: no, I stopped because of reporting requirements dread: drat regulators, eh? ok, which post? cirrus: lol, yep there was the one with the atlantis1

Boxturret posted:

it was really MARK KARPELES

kalensc posted:

Lmao, every article covering the saga is packed with gems like this

(Context: how to ensure that Ross was logged into as DPR on Silk Road when they scooped the laptop)

LanceHunter posted:

Guys, I think you've bee missing something really important. The Lightning Network means bitcoin can now process 40 million transactions per second*!

https://twitter.com/Blockstream/status/1502115599874359297

*Actually 500 transactions per second in each of the 80,000 channels** that are currently on the network.

**No, there is no guarantee that the existing channels will be able to route between you and the place where you want to conduct your transaction.

Boxturret posted:

the explanations for all the incriminating evidence on his computer were so good, the mycrimes.txt was created at random from ram when the computer shut down, mark karpeles found the exact torrent fross was downloading and hijacked it to plant spreadsheets and photos and diary entries all over his file system, just magical

Boxturret posted:

i thought that was brought up by his family as one of the many examples of him being a living saint, along with him running through the rain to fetch the car, which proved that he couldn't possibly be a bad drug site man and it was really MARK KARPELES hacking his computer through compromised torrents of the dailyshow

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03/27/2013 set up servers

03/28/2013 being blackmailed with user info. talking with large distributor (hell's angels).

03/29/2013 commissioned hit on blackmailer with angels

...

09/11 - 09/18/2013 ... Got covered in poison oak trying to get a piece of trash out of a tree in a park nearby and have been moping.

LanceHunter posted:

Guys, I think you've bee missing something really important. The Lightning Network means bitcoin can now process 40 million transactions per second*!

https://twitter.com/Blockstream/status/1502115599874359297

*Actually 500 transactions per second in each of the 80,000 channels** that are currently on the network.

**No, there is no guarantee that the existing channels will be able to route between you and the place where you want to conduct your transaction.

ryde posted:

I thought that the Lightning Network made a graph of channels in order to route to your destination. If thats true, treating those 80,000 channels as independent seems to be a really big mistake. Anyone know whether thats correct?

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

yes, every lightning network connection is between two people and they have to commit upfront to every bitcoin that they ever want to spend over it (which will get locked into the lightning channel). if it runs out you have to spend enormous bitcoin transaction fees creating a new channel.
then if you want to send bits coin to someone you don't have a direct connection with you have to solve an NP-hard problem to traverse the graph and pay nofees at each leg of the journey.

if you send $100 it also consumes $100 worth of the up-front liquidity from each connection it passes through, so if someone doesn't send a similar transaction backwards through those same nodes they will eventually get exhausted and have to be recreated

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gschmidl posted:

Mapmakers will be on standby

https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1526029996787216387