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by mike_hock 6 days ago
It was directed at the people theorizing and speculating seemingly missing the possibility that it was just a troll.

Not acting on information you're being fed by a troll is itself a guardrail against manipulation. We don't know if the bad actor ever provisioned any hardware and actually spent the money he claims. All we've seen is words and a slopcoded website.