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How is this not the first thought people had? Poor guy, with a lot of signs of mental instability. The amount of animosity people have had towards him on HN (and elsewhere) isn't tempered by how obviously imbalanced he is. I think it's because of the disproportionate amount of media attention he's received for something he didn't earn.

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He is also on the run from some major legal issues here is Australia so it wouldn't surprise me at all. I just hope that the people that know his whereabouts can help him, however poor his actions he needs all the mental help he can get.

This is the clearest analysis of the situation. He is mentally unstable and needs help, not a media spotlight.

One possible explanation to the whole thing not being considered so much is that he has the delusion of being Satoshi and might be trying to prove it and failing to understand why he can't.

I did not expect to be the first one to bring it up. People are being very clinical here.

To be fair to people here, we're discussing a new message by a person who is widely perceived to be running some type of scam. I hadn't considered the more serious subtext of this message but given the history here you have to consider that that might have been intentional to try to engender sympathy.

Yeah, but it still sounds like a legitimate suicide note and some semblance of worry makes sense.. I understand the desire fore fairness, but this was just posted without much followup context. Have a bit of heart for a second.

If this whole story is the a result of a mental health issue, well - mental health is a serious mother fucker.

> it still sounds like a legitimate suicide note

"Sounds". Let's not forget the guy's a con man.

The internet loves to shoot first and ask questions later, but there's some things we need to be a little more compassionate about. I understand it's in his MO to pull a trick like this, but let's at least see that he's ok before treating it as such.

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