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It seemed to me like Rovion is Bob, but just taking on a different identity, hence the "Let me know when you plan to arrest Bob" comment.
by braderhart 10y ago
It seemed to me like Rovion is Bob, but just taking on a different identity, hence the "Let me know when you plan to arrest Bob" comment.
- felixgallo 10y agooccam's razor suggests that Rovion, Bob and Voorhees are all the same person. Any other reading would, as the article points out too-obliquely, involve too much strain on reality.
- btilly 10y agoGiven the information in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Voorhees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Voorhees, there is every reason to believe that Voorhees has more to lose here than to gain. He already has personal wealth well in excess of the amounts stolen, and his personal cost from continuing to run the business in a shut down mode likely also exceeds the thefts.
- felixgallo 10y agoif I had a bitcoin for every free-state-believing tax-hating wannabe-nationless pseudonymous SEC-fined bitcoin founder who's taken the money, concocted a fabulous cockamamie story and run, I would have enough to buy a really nice vape pen and a fedora
- splintercell 10y ago> Occam's razor suggests that Rovion, Bob and Voorhees are all the same person. Occam's razor is a principle which suggests that Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. The principle works, because in other words it's saying "A theory must not have unexplained factors". Considering Voorhees has a lot more money (he might be a bitcoin billionaire at some point, if still not one), his reputation is on line. Rovion, and Bob being one person is fathomable, but Voorhees being them doesn't make sense.
- mjevans 10y agoMy initial reaction is: I am very glad I had nothing at stake here... my second reaction is the same as the author of this deconstruction. Why should I trust anything any of these actors do ever again given the way they have reacted to the data.