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by cmapes 4299 days ago
I thought ransom was supposed to work by making the person whom you have secret information pay you NOT to disclose the info. Especially if this "Jeffrey" knows the the Satoshi's true identity like the hacker says. That's not even mentioning that Satoshi almost certainly has way more than $20k in bitcoin (likely 100's of millions of dollars) and has a real interest in preserving anonymity. Wouldn't that make him personally the obvious target to extort?

Or maybe this "Jeffrey" is full of bs and has no real information, which would explain why he's trying to get money from the public. Obvious troll seems obvious.

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Exactly. And, if he felt like being taken seriously, he could prove a dox only to SN (release a hash of his hometown or first name or something). He's got nothing (or is incredibly dumb).