Yep... I browsed through them, and there seems to be a decent number likely to be real pics.
I put my real pic, too.I think that opsec does not really resonate with some folks, and surely there is a decent amount of understanding that some people might consider posting an "actual" selfie to be harmless.. even a kind of personal acknowledgement.
I suppose there are pics/videos/social media profiles of very well known people involved in bitcoin & it doesn’t do them any harm.
It’s not for me though, I will always try to keep my identity private when it involves bitcoin. I don’t want to be known.
There are a couple of things going on there. If you are going to run a kind of business that involves bitcoin, then there could be a whole hell of a lot of advantages to either having lax opsec or just letting yourself be known. By lax opsec, I don't mean lax security in terms of how and where you store your bitcoins. On the other hand, some people are unclear about whether they are attempting to run a business both in how they present themselves and perhaps also unclear in their own heads, too. A final category could be someone who might be scamming and a bit ambiguous about which world they are in.. the publicly known or maintaining a more obscure personal identity.
I’d be worried if people knew who I was I could be a victim of some kind of mugging/robbery/torture. Obviously I don’t have hundreds of bitcoin’s but you never know what some people might see as worth targeting.
I don’t feel like getting my fingernails pulled out or being water boarded for my private keys.
I suppose it depends on how you play it, and surely some public figures don't appear to have very many bitcoins and others do...
Overall, it is going to cost a lot less to engage in security through obscurity, and one of the risks of flaunting too much wealth will have similar issues regarding whether a person has sufficiently stepped up his/her security based on changing circumstances.
I am largely with you about keeping a low profile, but never say never about possibly going into the limelight or even entering into a business that causes you to go more into the limelight... than at that point, new angles, including plausible deniability might have to be employed.
