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Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto

Posted by timothy on from the now-he's-gonna-get-you-too dept.

wabrandsma writes "Two Israeli computer scientists say they may have uncovered a puzzling financial link between Ross William Ulbricht, the recently arrested operator of the Internet black market known as the Silk Road, and the secretive inventor of bitcoin, the anonymous online currency, used to make Silk Road purchases."

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  1. You keep using that name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

    When a person attempts to steal notorieity by using a famous name as a pseudonym, don't feed their ego (and ruin a good movie) by calling them the name they chose. Pick an unused name that implies disrepect to the person, and call them that. e.g. Inept Pirate Doofus.

    1. Re:You keep using that name by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 4, Funny

      The other day I got ripped off during a TF2 item trade with Gabe Newell!

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  2. Find Andy Kaufman by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    and you'll have found Satoshi Nakamoto.

  3. Re: The interesting question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Keyser Soze

  4. Re:The interesting question by msauve · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, we do know that the Walrus was Paul.

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  5. On the off-chance that they were in cahoots... by RandomUsername99 · · Score: 3, Funny

    On the off-chance that they were in cahoots, and this guy helped start an international currency, in large part, to make silk road a reality... he totally just won drug-dealing.

  6. Re:The interesting question by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you keep missing him, how the heck did he die?

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