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>Satoshi’s wallets are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and there have been kidnappings/torture/murders for much less than that. So if Forbes publishes a
by DeathArrow 7mo ago
>Satoshi’s wallets are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and there have been kidnappings/torture/murders for much less than that.
So if Forbes publishes a list of the richest people in the world, it makes them targets?
- anshumankmr 7mo agodo you need the forbes list of billionaires to know who is bezos, gates or musk?
- input_sh 7mo agoThere's 3428 on that list, I don't think it's feasible for any random person to know about more than 5% of them.
- helloplanets 7mo agoSadly it does. Most of those people have to spend a lot of money on security. But usually it's not the Forbes list that specifically outs them as being wealthy. You can't really build a billion dollar company under the radar. This is just a strange situation where someone has made billions without their identity being known, without being a criminal.
- aaa_aaa 7mo agoWhen you are not actually rich, it matters.
- SXX 7mo agoThis. Imagine being targeted by actual government agencies of russia, north korea and iran who wouldn't mind to take some of your bitcoins.
- chii 7mo agoNo, because those people are already public figures. They own companies that are publicly known (i don't mean publicly traded), and thus by proxy, are public face of those companies. Or they appear(ed) in public to make something of being in public (such as lobbying, or civic activities, or philanthropy etc). This makes any article about them not a doxx - they already revealed themselves publicly. You cannot segregate public affairs of the person with private affairs.
- thinkharderdev 7mo agoMr Back is already a very public figure in the bitcoin/crypto community who is the face of a public company. This isn't some rando who nobody has ever heard of before.
- Degenroll 7mo ago[dead]
- Lapsa 7mo agoa killer from Moscow used to cost $5000
- SXX 7mo agoAfter events of last 4 years in Russia you can probably be killed there for $100 or for a wrong look. Lots of trigger happy ex-convict veterans with PTSD are around. For now they are busy killing their wives and relatives, but eventually they will run out of money for alcohol and will have to find a "job".
- Lapsa 7mo agosad state indeed. people deserve better than that
- SXX 7mo agoThis is what you get when majority of country is ignoring politics, dont participate in electiom process, dont fight for their rights, etc.
- Lapsa 6mo agoI find it weird to defend Russia but you seem to be missing couple things. most importantly - it's not homogeneous, not even a republic. there's around 190 ethnic groups and ~40 officially recognized separatist groups. and that's important because it skews national narrative, mandates harder punishments and corruption as a crutch. when the media follows "99% heroic bullshit, 1% truth" scheme, it's somewhat challenging not to ignore politics - you get bored of it
- SXX 6mo agoI was born in Russia and lived there good chunk of my life. I agree it's not that simple and it took two decades to turn the country into whatever it became now. When country is already turned into authoritarian military regime there is obviously no way to turn back to democracy by political actions alone. Yet back in 2006-2016 it was still possible to turn things around if enough people cared. Unfortunately majority of population was happy to ignore politics and now everyone pays the price.
- otherme123 7mo agoThose people are on alert and already protected. Satoshi is probably a regular guy without any other security other than being anonymous. We are also assuming that they are doxing the real guy, and not some bystander that now have to deal with all the consequences without having the resources to protect himself. Lets suppose they are wrong, they dox the wrong person, "opsies, let us add a footnote to the text saying we were wrong, and let us forget this happened" (RE: reddit played detective a couple times and botched normal people lives).
- ghaff 7mo agoAnd if you do have a big pile of money but are flying under the radar so far you sadly should have some investments in security. I thought people around here didn’t really believe in security through obscurity.
- otherme123 7mo agoLets keep with the analogy, as wrong as it is. If you discover a serious bug, you usually disclose it privately, allowing the maintainers to patch the problem before disclosing. When the embargo is over, the bug is already harmless. Why we do that? Isn't that security through obscurity? Why we consider unethical to just disclose serious zero day bugs that might even get someone killed, or thousand of script kiddies that would never discover the bug on their own can profit from it easily? Security through obscurity actually works in real life. There are lots of people that hide all their lives in a humble way, only to get discovered as millionaires after they die. Because you don't have hundred, thousands of bots looking for "vulnerabilities" on everyone's life at almost zero cost and big potential profit.
- mikkupikku 7mo agoWho says he has the money? Even if he really is who they say he is, why do you think he actually has that money? It hasn't moved since it was made, it was probably casually lost during testing and will never be recovered by anybody, meaning it basically doesn't exist at all.
- hliyan 7mo agoIf Forbes misidentifies the wrong person as a billionaire, then yes, it is a problem.
- pjc50 7mo agoThe Forbes 30-under-30 is I believe pay to play. It's also a surprisingly reliable predictor of arrest.