Two Forgotten Architects of Silk Road

Re:Two Forgotten Architects of Silk Road by smcl on Monday September 28, 2015 @09:32AM (#10290347)

Care to summarise any of the interesting parts, or is it worth holding on and checking this at home? I'm at work and I suspect clicking on "myplanetganja.com" will not go down well with our infra team. Also what does "Variety Jones == Plural of Mongoose" mean?

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Re:Two Forgotten Architects of Silk Road by 289490 on Monday September 28, 2015 @09:40AM (#10290391)

simon aka Varity Jones aka Plural of Mongoose writes a very long, well written tale with many dubious elements about his life after Silk Road collapses. It supposedly involves high level corruption, $75M of stolen Bitcoin that needs a password, and a beach holiday. It's worth reading, he definitely has a nice style regardless of how much truth there is in the story.

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Re:Two Forgotten Architects of Silk Road by seiji on Monday September 28, 2015 @10:20AM (#10290568)

Great example of panopticon-like surveillance leading to people self-censoring since they are afraid of being monitored.

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Re:Two Forgotten Architects of Silk Road by GhostHardware on Monday September 28, 2015 @09:36AM (#10290374)

This url leads to forum posts that is written by guy named "Plural of Mongoose". I skimmed it over and it reads like memoirs of main (bad?) character from Noir book. Definitely worth a read if you're into that.

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Re:Two Forgotten Architects of Silk Road by smcl on Monday September 28, 2015 @05:39PM (#10293404)

Agree, I just checked it out there's a lot going on. Sort of reminds me of McAfee's ramblings

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