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Topic: I know this is oldish, but I kinda like the way Roger Ver stood up to this dude. (Read 912 times)

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Basically he got hacked, the hacker was trying to blackmail him for $20,000 worth of Bitcoin, but the hacker ended up giving him a sniveling apology and thought he was going to get whacked after Roger Ver put out a bounty for his arrest. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2642600/Are-going-order-hitman-kill-Digital-currency-millionaire-known-The-Bitcoin-Jesus-turns-tables-blackmailer-placing-20-000-online-bounty-head.html
This story is only ~3 months lol. I think the moral of the story is to not attempt to blackmail people that have the resources to put out a reward/bounty to find the person doing the blackmailing.

I am really not sure why the kid thought he was going to get "whacked" (killed) as this was not at all implied, and the bounty clearly said the reward would only be payable in the event of the conviction (and obviously the arrest) of the perpetrator.

IIRC Ver said that the person who hacked Satashi's email seemed to be very similar to the person who hacked his domain 
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Did he say he was going to announce something big a few months ago?
legendary
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LOL That is old news Tongue yeah, don't piss off Anarchists and Libertarians Cheesy
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Basically he got hacked, the hacker was trying to blackmail him for $20,000 worth of Bitcoin, but the hacker ended up giving him a sniveling apology and thought he was going to get whacked after Roger Ver put out a bounty for his arrest. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2642600/Are-going-order-hitman-kill-Digital-currency-millionaire-known-The-Bitcoin-Jesus-turns-tables-blackmailer-placing-20-000-online-bounty-head.html
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