Topic: Anyone know what happened to knightmb and his 371,000 BTC? (Read 81453 times)
If there is no time limit, then almost at any stage it was possible to go into a plus, as history shows. And if you look at the graph for the last two years, so in General the statement seems strange.
Well, here goes a long spiel.
Probably the last that anyone had heard from me before a few days ago was dated September, 2011 according to my profile stats. So it has been a long time of me just lurking around from time to time.
I can't remember exactly when, but some story broke on the Internet about my bitcoin collection and shortly afterwards things got crazy.
The first thing that happened was my inbox here at the forum exploded with people asking for a loan of anywhere from 10k to 100k bitcoins to start the next big market place. I had a few people message me here that they had been burned by a hacker or some website that had their wallet information and asked for anywhere from 100 to 1k bitcoins as a way to help them recover their loss. I always wanted to help people, but there is no well to tell if these were sincere request or just someone out to make a quick bitcoin scam. Some of those I did help people I did help just to be nice, but word must have gotten around quick.
I had to step back from the forums for a while as it was a good place for people to chase me down. All the questions of what I would do with it or how did I get it, was I the one that hacked XYZ website and that's why I have so many, etc. Somewhere in this topic I think, is a another long explanation of how I came into possession of it all. Long story short, I was in bitcoin early when the network was small and basically used a lot of Amazon processing power to load up a ton of bitcoin miners all at once in their clusters (Amazon) using a custom compiled version of the CentOS bitcoind source files. Amazon had a big price difference between running a lot of windows sessions and running a lot of Linux sessions. Turns out, the Linux sessions were running kind of an old version of CentOS as well as I couldn't even get the compiled binaries to run.
Well, a lot of money was spent to generate that chunk of bitcoins, but not so I could posses it all, there were plans to use it as a backing for re-loadable credit cards like service that had bitcoin powering it in the background. Needless to say, that project fell out due to (at least in hindsight) very inept investors. The project floundered and then finally as a way to get out, they (investors) wanted to see what they could sell everything for. It had cost a lot of real money to produce that pile of bitcoins, so I ended up buying it for dirt cheap (at least in terms that bitcoins really had no value to them). Maybe after the 7 year NDS I signed expires, the world will know who it was, but for now I can't name anyone or business.
Once the market value was shooting up to space, the pile of bitcoins was worth a small fortune in theory at least.
A lot of bitcoins were spread around the community to help people at first, but it kind of got out of hand.
Ultimately, a large portion ended up being donated to wikileaks.org, so I'm certainly not the person sitting up top a large pile of bitcoins anymore. The rest went to paying off small debts and the very last of it was just recently donated to wikileaks.org again. I never had any intention of trying to crash the bitcoin market with a large sell-off as many theorized I would do. So sleep safe that there is one less person like me in the bitcoin kingdom.
So, no matter what legend has built up, nothing amazing or exciting has happened to the bitcoins I once had. No buying a Country or purchasing Islands of the sort. Just trying to help out where I could instead. The only thing I have left is old screenshots and empty wallet files now.
A large portion of my past time has actually been invested in the creation of an alternate digital currency for the last few years because I always thought there was a better way to do it. So that's where I spend all my time now, at timekoin.org
I was great to catch up with everyone though, hopefully the story wasn't too boring. Maybe not as exciting as some had hoped.
Probably the last that anyone had heard from me before a few days ago was dated September, 2011 according to my profile stats. So it has been a long time of me just lurking around from time to time.
I can't remember exactly when, but some story broke on the Internet about my bitcoin collection and shortly afterwards things got crazy.
The first thing that happened was my inbox here at the forum exploded with people asking for a loan of anywhere from 10k to 100k bitcoins to start the next big market place. I had a few people message me here that they had been burned by a hacker or some website that had their wallet information and asked for anywhere from 100 to 1k bitcoins as a way to help them recover their loss. I always wanted to help people, but there is no well to tell if these were sincere request or just someone out to make a quick bitcoin scam. Some of those I did help people I did help just to be nice, but word must have gotten around quick.
I had to step back from the forums for a while as it was a good place for people to chase me down. All the questions of what I would do with it or how did I get it, was I the one that hacked XYZ website and that's why I have so many, etc. Somewhere in this topic I think, is a another long explanation of how I came into possession of it all. Long story short, I was in bitcoin early when the network was small and basically used a lot of Amazon processing power to load up a ton of bitcoin miners all at once in their clusters (Amazon) using a custom compiled version of the CentOS bitcoind source files. Amazon had a big price difference between running a lot of windows sessions and running a lot of Linux sessions. Turns out, the Linux sessions were running kind of an old version of CentOS as well as I couldn't even get the compiled binaries to run.
Well, a lot of money was spent to generate that chunk of bitcoins, but not so I could posses it all, there were plans to use it as a backing for re-loadable credit cards like service that had bitcoin powering it in the background. Needless to say, that project fell out due to (at least in hindsight) very inept investors. The project floundered and then finally as a way to get out, they (investors) wanted to see what they could sell everything for. It had cost a lot of real money to produce that pile of bitcoins, so I ended up buying it for dirt cheap (at least in terms that bitcoins really had no value to them). Maybe after the 7 year NDS I signed expires, the world will know who it was, but for now I can't name anyone or business.
Once the market value was shooting up to space, the pile of bitcoins was worth a small fortune in theory at least.
A lot of bitcoins were spread around the community to help people at first, but it kind of got out of hand.
Ultimately, a large portion ended up being donated to wikileaks.org, so I'm certainly not the person sitting up top a large pile of bitcoins anymore. The rest went to paying off small debts and the very last of it was just recently donated to wikileaks.org again. I never had any intention of trying to crash the bitcoin market with a large sell-off as many theorized I would do. So sleep safe that there is one less person like me in the bitcoin kingdom.
So, no matter what legend has built up, nothing amazing or exciting has happened to the bitcoins I once had. No buying a Country or purchasing Islands of the sort. Just trying to help out where I could instead. The only thing I have left is old screenshots and empty wallet files now.
A large portion of my past time has actually been invested in the creation of an alternate digital currency for the last few years because I always thought there was a better way to do it. So that's where I spend all my time now, at timekoin.org
I was great to catch up with everyone though, hopefully the story wasn't too boring. Maybe not as exciting as some had hoped.
This is a fun and interesting story. Bumping for all of those who haven't heard it (like me..).
Thanks for sharing knight.
Edit: I should have read to the end before posting. Geez.
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Now just a lot of people who do not understand what it is, but rowing out of the herd feeling, thinking that it will grow endlessly and of course the growth will be good, joined the topic of bitcoin.
I figure something foul is afoot if he is still missing. $100000 doesn't usually just go missing, looks like the next block chain should be dedicated to finding out just what happened to this fellow.
knightmb posting on the Turkish boards now? 
Watch out we have Keyser Soze on our hands
Watch out we have Keyser Soze on our hands
knightmb posting on the Turkish boards now?
Watch out we have Keyser Soze on our hands
He gone dormant again..Watch out we have Keyser Soze on our hands
So then maybe it wasn't mike brown at all? I was going back to read how the connection was made, but seems it was pure speculation?
This is fun
knightmb posting on the Turkish boards now?
Watch out we have Keyser Soze on our hands
He gone dormant again.. Watch out we have Keyser Soze on our hands
knightmb posting on the Turkish boards now?
Watch out we have Keyser Soze on our hands
Watch out we have Keyser Soze on our hands
i'll bet he still has most. he claimed to have given most of it away to wikileaks and the rest went on paying off some debts. musta been quite a windfall for wikileaks and a significant amount of debt even when bitcoin was valued at a dollar.
however i don't get his involvement in some weird alt and all this extortion stuff.
he also claims to have more than a few clues about satoshi's real location and could verify his online identity due to some private communications.
however i don't get his involvement in some weird alt and all this extortion stuff.
he also claims to have more than a few clues about satoshi's real location and could verify his online identity due to some private communications.
Knightmb would have been a billionaire now if he had held on to his 371,000 BTC. 
$2,742 X 371,067.36 = $1,017,466,701.12
Instead he's in the federal slammer for extorting the Romney's
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/16/romney_tax_return_hacker_dr_evil_gets_his_sentence_overturned/
$2,742 X 371,067.36 = $1,017,466,701.12
Instead he's in the federal slammer for extorting the Romney's
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/16/romney_tax_return_hacker_dr_evil_gets_his_sentence_overturned/
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Nobody needed to crack Tor, however: when he offered his story around, he left enough information about himself on the USB keys he sent media outlets (as well as a couple of cat pics).
From the judgement:
All three flash drives contained a file named “Romney1040-Collection.7z.” ... The unallocated space on the drives also held text strings and two photos of cats. The PricewaterhouseCoopers flash drive held the text string, “5276 dolphin kathryn.” … The Democratic Party drive had the string “4154 dolphin KnightMB.”
A series of Google searches using “KnightMB” revealed an email address, [email protected], and that a 33 year-old Tennessean named Michael Brown made online posts connected to that address
From the judgement:
All three flash drives contained a file named “Romney1040-Collection.7z.” ... The unallocated space on the drives also held text strings and two photos of cats. The PricewaterhouseCoopers flash drive held the text string, “5276 dolphin kathryn.” … The Democratic Party drive had the string “4154 dolphin KnightMB.”
A series of Google searches using “KnightMB” revealed an email address, [email protected], and that a 33 year-old Tennessean named Michael Brown made online posts connected to that address
Interesting how he got caught.
He should have just enjoyed his money and pay his taxes instead of getting in trouble. People's greed for power is always their downfall.
Knightmb would have been a billionaire now if he had held on to his 371,000 BTC.
$2,742 X 371,067.36 = $1,017,466,701.12
Instead he's in the federal slammer for extorting the Romney's
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/16/romney_tax_return_hacker_dr_evil_gets_his_sentence_overturned/
$2,742 X 371,067.36 = $1,017,466,701.12
Instead he's in the federal slammer for extorting the Romney's
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/16/romney_tax_return_hacker_dr_evil_gets_his_sentence_overturned/
Quite interesting story indeed. And damn that was a lot of bitcoin in total 371K I don't know what to do with them if I have that much btc in my wallet. But at least the full hands of the law has caught on him and now he is in a slammer. Too bad.
he's not enjoying the btc he has. legendary
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Holy mother...
He's gonna have a nice surprise when he comes back then.
And he had a nice production rate too! 15k MH/s? Dang...
He's gonna have a nice surprise when he comes back then.
And he had a nice production rate too! 15k MH/s? Dang...
Knightmb would have been a billionaire now if he had held on to his 371,000 BTC.
$2,742 X 371,067.36 = $1,017,466,701.12
Instead he's in the federal slammer for extorting the Romney's
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/16/romney_tax_return_hacker_dr_evil_gets_his_sentence_overturned/
$2,742 X 371,067.36 = $1,017,466,701.12
Instead he's in the federal slammer for extorting the Romney's
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/16/romney_tax_return_hacker_dr_evil_gets_his_sentence_overturned/
Found guilty.
"Michael Mancil Brown, 37, of Franklin, Tenn., was convicted of six counts of wire fraud and six counts of using facilities of interstate commerce to commit extortion."
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/05/13/franklin-man-guilty-romney-tax-fraud-scheme/84334150/
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/05/17/mitt-romney-tax-records-extortionist-convicted-on-multiple-charges-facing-25-years-in-jail/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/17/bitcoinransoming_romney_hacker_faces_25_years_inside/
"Michael Mancil Brown, 37, of Franklin, Tenn., was convicted of six counts of wire fraud and six counts of using facilities of interstate commerce to commit extortion."
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/05/13/franklin-man-guilty-romney-tax-fraud-scheme/84334150/
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/05/17/mitt-romney-tax-records-extortionist-convicted-on-multiple-charges-facing-25-years-in-jail/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/17/bitcoinransoming_romney_hacker_faces_25_years_inside/
Interesting. I'll add this to your list for good measure and to save people some leg-work:
http://samesites.com/www/timekoin.org
Found guilty.
"Michael Mancil Brown, 37, of Franklin, Tenn., was convicted of six counts of wire fraud and six counts of using facilities of interstate commerce to commit extortion."
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/05/13/franklin-man-guilty-romney-tax-fraud-scheme/84334150/
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/05/17/mitt-romney-tax-records-extortionist-convicted-on-multiple-charges-facing-25-years-in-jail/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/17/bitcoinransoming_romney_hacker_faces_25_years_inside/
"Michael Mancil Brown, 37, of Franklin, Tenn., was convicted of six counts of wire fraud and six counts of using facilities of interstate commerce to commit extortion."
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/05/13/franklin-man-guilty-romney-tax-fraud-scheme/84334150/
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/05/17/mitt-romney-tax-records-extortionist-convicted-on-multiple-charges-facing-25-years-in-jail/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/17/bitcoinransoming_romney_hacker_faces_25_years_inside/
Boy, did I screw up, albeit not badly: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3167910
DAMN! I wish I had 10 BTC back when they were worth $1 each. 
I did by 10BTC for $9.70. Here is how I spent 2 of them
DAMN! I wish I had 10 BTC back when they were worth $1 each.
14MtPdKuhneK3c16fTTESm143CDHD85Jni is MtGox. Not very useful.
So Mark Karpeles must be Michael Brown. I think Mark Karpeles is even an anagram of Michael Brown. Mekael ... Krars. If you change "Krars" to "Brown," it's almost an exact match. They have the same number of letters!ETA: Left out the P. Mekael Prarks.
14MtPdKuhneK3c16fTTESm143CDHD85Jni is MtGox. Not very useful.
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