Anyone who enjoys this article should check out American Kingpin written by Nick Bilton. I finished the audiobook recently and loved it! Very well researched, great story, nonfiction that reads like a fiction thriller, and great narration. Loved it.
"His roommates thought that the guy named Josh, who had answered their Craigslist ad, was a currency trader. They did think it was weird that he had no cell phone, paid in cash, and was always on his computer."
Its an ongoing saga. There were some "hitmen" he hired on the site. They ended up being scammers but they arrested one just 6 months ago..
This article is poorly reported drivel that serves only to promote the prosecutor's narrative without asking any of the difficult questions involved in this case.
Questions about parallel reconstruction and warrants.
Questions about how much responsibility platform providers bear for the content they facilitate and who gets to call themselves a platform provider.
Questions about provenance and chain of custody of digital evidence and question about the admissibility of digital evidence when investigators make major forensic mistakes.
Questions about unequal ability to call experts and prosecutorial tricks to suppress evidence and disadvantage the defense.
Questions about jurisdiction overlap, competition between agencies and localities as they relate to political pressure in high profile investigations.
There are so many interesting and highly relevant questions brought up by this case and this article pretty much ignores them.
