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Re:Silk Road Founder Says Bitcoin Booms And Busts Won't Kill... by samegreatsleeve on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @01:46AM (#5562884)
The Princess Bride is extremely popular among 20-40 year olds in the Anglosphere. Australia, Canada, USA, UK.

This narrows down your search for the Dread Pirate Roberts to like 150 million people. So the fact that this English speaking Silk Road founder is from the English speaking world and was probably a child or teenager in the 80s is not really narrowing it down much.

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Re:Silk Road Founder Says Bitcoin Booms And Busts Won't Kill... by dagw on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @04:13AM (#5563313)
He could also be from outside the English speaking world and just studied or grew up there.
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Re:Silk Road Founder Says Bitcoin Booms And Busts Won't Kill... by a_bonobo on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @02:03AM (#5562935)
150 million people out of 7.079 billion possible candidates? In my view that is narrowing it down a lot!
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Re:Silk Road Founder Says Bitcoin Booms And Busts Won't Kill... by leoedin on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @04:24AM (#5563344)
It does narrow it down, but not to any useful level. For all intents and purposes, trying to pick someone from a pool of 150 million vs 7 billion is essentially the same level of impossible.
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Re:Silk Road Founder Says Bitcoin Booms And Busts Won't Kill... by daeken on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @07:10AM (#5563755)
Really interesting article on using information theory to narrow down suspects of crime: http://www.gwern.net/Death%20Note%20Anonymity
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Re:Silk Road Founder Says Bitcoin Booms And Busts Won't Kill... by leoedin on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @11:59AM (#5565168)
That is pretty interesting. The wikipedia edit time example is particularly revealing. The AC hum stuff is truly fascinating!
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Re:Silk Road Founder Says Bitcoin Booms And Busts Won't Kill... by ecdavis on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @07:25AM (#5563801)
The number of possible candidates is not the total population of the planet, but rather the number of people on the planet who have the knowledge and skills required to operate such a site.
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