[bb2018]

If they wanted to get as much money as possible without being caught what else could they have done?

If that was the case they could only deal with bitcoin. Blackmailing with bitcoin may be smarter but maybe they figured that would be investigated more or treated more harshly? They could have released fake financial tweets and shorted the market - but that still would be investigated much faster.

I'm sure the 100k or whatever they got isn't as much as it could be - but for a random dude who paid 10k to a disgruntled employee it is pretty good.

[ajphdiv]

Buy shares in a small publicly traded company. Pump/dump shares. One tweet from musk stating he was adding such and such to all Teslas would send the target company through the roof.

[diab0lic]

The post you're replying to is suggesting that manipulating the market like that draws the attention of some very powerful organizations. It'll likely be investigated swiftly and they'll come down on you harshly when compared to the consequences of some Bitcoin scamming.

[solotronics]

US federal agencies actually investigate market activity around big events like 9/11. Very likely to be caught doing that unless you have some way of shuffling money in and out of the market anonymously.

[bb2018]

Though I was the one who suggested this would be easily catchable - Tesla is probably the one company where you could get away with this. There is no shortage of random Robin Hood users making pretty big plays on it constantly.