>How would that weigh up against the possibility of recovering the funds? Maybe you're asking a rhetorical question, but historical precedent suggests the chan

>How would that weigh up against the possibility of recovering the funds? Maybe you're asking a rhetorical question, but historical precedent suggests the chance of recovering the funds in this sort of crime is really small. There have been tens of relatively big cryptocurrency heists like this, and but only in perhaps three or four cases that I know were funds recovered from the thief But, to again imagine the Cryptsy site owner's viewpoint, statistics and probability are no match for pure human desperation, so, if we believe the 'hack' story, then a desperate plan based on the ill-advised belief that the funds could be recovered from the thief is not totally unbelievable. Though it sounds even more unlikely because the owner only announced a public bounty yesterday, not 18 months ago when the money was stolen.