Well, he was caught because early on, he advertised for developers using his real-name email address. I know on the Internet people aren't terribly good at being people, but where I'm from it's considered bad form to celebrate anyone being imprisoned. Let's try not to celebrate someone's life being ruined. 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.
Huzzah.
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