Re:A SpaceX engineer's dark web insider trading sparks an SE...
by Traster on Sunday March 21, 2021 @06:15PM
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I'm not actually that surprised. There are lots of people who have decent paying jobs, but want more, and it's not as easy as saying "I earn $100k working at X, I can easily earn an extra 30k doing it freelance on the weekend". It is extraordinarily difficult to actually leverage your skills in a way that earns immediate profits - especially since your skills are often specializing in a niche that your company probably dominates. 27k for a stupid stock prediction scam seems like a decent pay off if you think your technical expertise means you have an extremely low chance of getting caught. Maybe you would be more willing to do this if you worked for a guy who repeatedly flouts SEC rules an brags about it....
Re:A SpaceX engineer's dark web insider trading sparks an SE...
by paulpauper on Sunday March 21, 2021 @12:41PM
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it's space-x, not google. the salaries are probably not that great, especially after taking into account living expenses . $20k in net profit is a nice even for an engineer.
Re:A SpaceX engineer's dark web insider trading sparks an SE...
by dehrmann on Sunday March 21, 2021 @01:19PM
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I assume SpaceX is like the game industry. People are overworked and underpaid because their work is their passion.
> As far back as 2016, the account with that moniker bought names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers on the underground marketplaces that traffic in illicit online goods. He took that personal info to open banking accounts in the names of unwitting strangers, and used those accounts to make trades based on insider information he gleaned from others
The claimed amount of Bitcoin he earned from these activities is low. Certainly low in the context of what a talented engineer should be earning. Either he’s hiding his actual profits, or he was simply doing this for the thrill of doing criminal things on the dark web. Strange case.