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Thanks to US pressure, Swiss banks are no longer as secretive as they used to be. They'll quickly give up information about any American when requested by the g
by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Thanks to US pressure, Swiss banks are no longer as secretive as they used to be. They'll quickly give up information about any American when requested by the government.
To add, anyone under indictment and bail is closely monitored. They can't just transfer money to a Swiss Bank without raising an alarm.
HNers enjoy cooking up movie-plot schemes that are dumb in reality.
- matheusmoreira 2y agoIn my country, there's a guy who actually did it. An anarchocapitalist named Daniel Fraga. Just a completely surreal guy. Police would show up to his house and he'd film himself calling them parasites of the state to their faces. Used to make videos criticizing the system, the government, the courts, the judges. Eventually tried to expose corruption. Government tried to freeze his accounts and discovered he had $1 in them. He had gone all in on bitcoin. To this day I believe the government has not seen the money. One day he just kinda disappeared. He's either in some paradise enjoying his billions or dead.
- tetris11 2y agoEgo-maniacs rarely retire quietly. He's dead.
- pavlov 2y agoSounds like his plan was: “With Bitcoin I can hide anywhere and access my fortune with just a password!” …But he made such a public deal out of it that some criminals figured they can access a fortune by kidnapping this guy and making him reveal the password.
- matheusmoreira 2y agoPeople tell me he's alive because they can see his BTC wallet moving funds. So either he's alive or someone rubberhosed him with the fabled five dollar wrench and he gave up the keys. I know it's probably the latter but I want to believe it's the former.