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I suspect that's the real plan here. Use the auction to stir up attention and blackmail any state actors implicated by these files into hushing the whole thing
by 1propionyl 10y ago
I suspect that's the real plan here. Use the auction to stir up attention and blackmail any state actors implicated by these files into hushing the whole thing.
Hence the open ended termination.
- Bartweiss 10y agoAlternatively, use the auction to stir up attention and low bids, even though there's nothing here. Then imply a state actor won (via a large self-bid) or disrupted the auction. Hence the penny-auction structure, where they can walk away and keep preliminary bids.
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