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A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite (2014)

62 points by kf 6y ago

ajuc 6y ago
> The feds always got them at the money drop. That's one problem bitcoin is solving.
- ISL 6y ago
  Bitcoin makes the flow of money beyond the money-drop transparent. Every last morsel of the ransom is permanently marked. Bitcoin has many remarkable properties, but permanent anonymity is not one of them.
  - JoeAltmaier 6y ago
    You can't be anonymous as a member of an exchange?
  - wyck 6y ago
    I think your missing the point, a money drop is about transportation/distribution and not anonymity. Transporting money is the hard part and bitcoin has changes this area more than anything. Being anonymous is easily circumvented by various other techniques, some new, some old.
  - parliament32 6y ago
    There are many low cost bitcoin mixers/tumblers out there.
m_eiman 6y ago
Scrolling was broken for me until I removed the extra parameters in the URL, to make it https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite
- encom 6y ago
  Scrolling worked for me until a popup blocked the content, so I backed out.
- dang 6y ago
  Ok, we changed to that from https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite?no-overlay&preview https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite?n... above.
simonebrunozzi 6y ago
> John Birges Jr. was 19 years old. He liked weed, beer, girls, and the Stones. I really like this passage here. So poetic in its own way.
- agency 6y ago
  This quote cracked me up > The other had short dark hair and protruding ears. “A hayseed,” Yablonsky said. “A goober type.”
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dang 6y ago
If curious see also 2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18661581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18661581 2016 (a bit) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11802353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11802353 https://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/ https://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/ - on the same topic - discussed twice in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9725851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9725851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816123 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816123
notdonspaulding 6y ago
Investigative journalism at its finest.
blarg1 6y ago
Hate it when they write articles like this, makes it hard to skim it.

62 points by kf 6y ago

ajuc 6y ago

> The feds always got them at the money drop. That's one problem bitcoin is solving.

ISL 6y ago
Bitcoin makes the flow of money beyond the money-drop transparent. Every last morsel of the ransom is permanently marked. Bitcoin has many remarkable properties, but permanent anonymity is not one of them.
- JoeAltmaier 6y ago
  You can't be anonymous as a member of an exchange?
- wyck 6y ago
  I think your missing the point, a money drop is about transportation/distribution and not anonymity. Transporting money is the hard part and bitcoin has changes this area more than anything. Being anonymous is easily circumvented by various other techniques, some new, some old.
- parliament32 6y ago
  There are many low cost bitcoin mixers/tumblers out there.

m_eiman 6y ago

Scrolling was broken for me until I removed the extra parameters in the URL, to make it https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite

encom 6y ago
Scrolling worked for me until a popup blocked the content, so I backed out.
dang 6y ago
Ok, we changed to that from https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite?no-overlay&preview https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite?n... above.

simonebrunozzi 6y ago

> John Birges Jr. was 19 years old. He liked weed, beer, girls, and the Stones. I really like this passage here. So poetic in its own way.

agency 6y ago
This quote cracked me up > The other had short dark hair and protruding ears. “A hayseed,” Yablonsky said. “A goober type.”

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dang 6y ago

If curious see also 2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18661581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18661581 2016 (a bit) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11802353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11802353 https://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/ https://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/ - on the same topic - discussed twice in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9725851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9725851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816123 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816123

notdonspaulding 6y ago

Investigative journalism at its finest.

blarg1 6y ago

Hate it when they write articles like this, makes it hard to skim it.