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How Did Dread Pirate Roberts Acquire and Protect His Bitcoin Wealth? [pdf]
- mavhc 12y agoHe got it from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts of course
- cheepin 12y agoWhich explains why it wasn't all recovered as well. Occam's razor strikes again.
- mburns 12y agoOccam's razor would suggest DPR lied and that he ran the operation from the start.
- MichaelGG 12y agoThe affidavit the FBI filed makes a pretty strong case that they were the same person. It seems likely the multiple DPR idea was an attempt to cover tracks.
- salmonellaeater 12y agomavhc's joke[1] is apparently a little too close to reality. [1] http://princessbride.wikia.com/wiki/Dread_Pirate_Roberts http://princessbride.wikia.com/wiki/Dread_Pirate_Roberts
- astrodust 12y agoIs this the Adi Shamir? Interesting insight from one of the co-creators of RSA.
- phyalow 12y agoYes - although he has mixed credibility with original bitcoin research.
- atmosx 12y agoSays who?
- FatalLogic 12y agoHe has put his name on two previous papers that use similar methods to link bitcoin transactions and identify entities or individuals The first paper seemed to contain some very basic misunderstandings of how bitcoin works, such as apparently mistaking the private company Blockchain.info for the Bitcoin blockchain itself. There were also other issues claimed - I don't recall the details. Adi Shamir responded to most of these claims, though he never explained the bizarre confusion over the Blockchain itself, and I think you can find some of that discussion on Bitcointalk.org if you search. The second paper attracted a lot of attention because it identified an address used to move a large amount of money by Satoshi Nakamoto and linked that address to the Silk Road, with the clear insinuation that Satoshi Nakamoto was intimately connected to the Silk Road. However, simply Googling the address in question showed that it belonged to Dustin Tramell, who confirmed that it was his. In reality, there was no link to Satoshi Nakamoto. Adi Shamir withdrew that claim, and attempted to downplay the issue by laying the blame for sensationalizing it on others.
- easytiger 12y agoYea a few of his very recent papers have been popping up here. interesting to see a multi billionaire still doing work like this.
- jbapple 12y agoI thought this was refuted: https://www.google.com/#q=%22adi+shamir%22+%22dread+pirate+roberts%22 https://www.google.com/#q=%22adi+shamir%22+%22dread+pirate+r...
- dollaaron 12y agoThe paper that was refuted claimed DPR was linked to Satoshi Nakamoto, this paper traces the path of the bitcoins seized by the FBI and provides an estimate of how many bitcoin remain in DPR's possession.
- MichaelGG 12y agoThis appears to be unrelated. The previous paper was trying to link Satoshi and DPR. This just talks about how DPR used wallets, and makes the case that the FBI didn't seize everything.
- jbapple 12y agoIt looks like they kept the name of the paper and some of the content the same.
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- bdesimone 12y ago"Reopened on Novebmer 6" Is this an early draft?
- newaccountfool 12y agoA bit off-topic but I'm just wondering what this type of writing is? Is this a white paper? I really like the format they use and was wondering how I could write something like this.
- montecarl 12y agoThis looks like a standard LaTeX article class document.
- newaccountfool 12y agoThanks
- jjoonathan 12y agoMargins large enough to (fit a morbidly obese elephant / not pose a safety hazard to small children / summon Fermat back from the dead)? Yep, it's LaTeX.
- illicium 12y agoThe standard LaTeX classes (page styles) are really meant for books and such where generous margins are a good thing. See the IEEE journal paper LaTeX template [1] for an example of space-constrained LaTeX typesetting. [1] http://css.paperplaza.net/conferences/support/files/IEEEtran_HOWTO.pdf http://css.paperplaza.net/conferences/support/files/IEEEtran...
- jjoonathan 12y agoYeah, most people who use LaTeX heavily get around to memorizing the \addtolength credo (or an alternative) fairly quickly. But the "holy shit, MARGINS" test has a very low false-positive rate in my experience. If you see !!!MARGINS!!!, it's probably LaTeX.
- montecarl 12y agoREVTeX [1] is pretty good. It is what is used for APS journals. The twocolumn mode is particularly compact. [1] http://journals.aps.org/revtex http://journals.aps.org/revtex
- callesgg 12y agoHe had expenses to run the servers and those would have used up a large portion of the bit coins as they had a lower value previously.