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He got nicked for selling drugs, not using Bitcoin. The dealers on the site probably didn’t face the same consequences.

• jfrunyon 6y ago
  He got nicked because he was pseudonymous, not anonymous. It's a lot easier to track one guy named DPR than hundreds of guys named random things.
  • kls 6y ago
    IIRC it was an old domain registration in his real name that did him in. He realized it and change it, but the history was still there. Been a while since I read about it, but that seems to stick in my mind as how he ended up being unmasked.
    • jfrunyon 6y ago
      There were a few failures I read about. It's kinda silly to argue about which specific one did him in when they all could've. But if he had been truly anonymous - if there was no way to link any one of his actions to any of his other actions - then obviously it could not have happened.