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Yeah, and people get robbed and killed for a few hundred dollar all the time. So what? That’s just a reality. I don’t really see the connection.
by arrrg 13y ago
Yeah, and people get robbed and killed for a few hundred dollar all the time. So what? That’s just a reality. I don’t really see the connection.
- sillysaurus3 13y agoThis wasn't a random robbery though. This was a systematic killing involving dirty banking employees who sent people to hunt them down. The connection is that $20,000 is a ton of money in Ecuador, and Nakamoto has a ton of money, so Nakamoto now has to worry about being hunted.
- scott_s 13y agoExcept that Nakamoto lives in LA.
- sillysaurus3 13y agoIsn't Nakamoto the only person who lives in LA who also controls >10% of a currency?
- scott_s 13y agoYes, but he's not the only person in LA with a net worth that large. And people who hold a large amount of stock in a company are in a similar situation.
- ceejayoz 13y ago> And people who hold a large amount of stock in a company are in a similar situation. Initiate a Bitcoin transfer at the same time as a stock sale followed up by a bank transfer from your brokerage and let us know which one finishes faster. Plus, the brokerage and the bank can choose to hold and/or reverse your transactions, for reasons like "hmm, we should probably see if Bill Gates really meant to sell all his Microsoft shares..." There are not many people sitting on tens/hundreds of millions of dollars in a format that you can store in your house and send irretrievably to a guy in Eastern Europe in an instant.
- ap22213 13y agoSeriously. Isn't this the reason why we pay many billions of dollars each year for the rule of law? If you're an exceptional case that needs extra security, get extra security.