On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:42 PM, jim bell <[1]jamesdbell9@yahoo.com> wrote: >> I dreamed I sawJim Belllast night, >> alive as you and me. That's the (modified) start of the Joe Hill song, in case you didn't recognize it. > it ought to be awfully difficult for the thief to remain entirely unknown, at least given enough > time. After all, it is well understood that Bitcoin is merely pseudonynous, not entirely anonymous. Watch for an anonymizing exchange being set up. Even if the proud new possessor of a bazzillion bitcoins has to lose half of the value in laundering them sufficiently, that's still a nice pile of change. As for Dan Geer's question about state actors, I of course would never suggest my government would do anything illegal or even questionable. -- Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet. -- Arnaud-Amaury, 1209 References 1. mailto:jamesdbell9@yahoo.com