If he were the REAL Dread Pirate Roberts, this would be his method for selling his ship to the next holder of the Dread Pirate Roberts franchise. (Ok, probably not.) At 10:19 AM 10/2/2013, Ted Smith wrote:
Well, he was caught because early on, he advertised for developers using his real-name email address.
Dumb.
On Wed, 2013-10-02 at 18:42 +0200, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:
Good. That'll remove one mayor anti-bitcoin argument. Plus it shows that even with anonymous transactions people can still be caught doing illegal things, making it less important to have exclusively publicly knowable transactions.
I thought Silk Road was one of the major pro-bitcoin arguments. But there are competing services as well, according to some news article I saw that tried three of them (but since they were a Reputable Journalism Channel, the reporter didn't get to actually smoke the dope he bought.)