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> Another private investigation from 2024 comes to a different conclusion. It names a software developer from New York as the alleged operator. According to this investigation, following the trail to Eastern Europe proved to be a red herring.

Any pointers to what this "private investigation" is? The other linked blog pointing to Russia (or at least a Russian) seems pretty convincing:

https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-...

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I think it refers to this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M6PMQrehmeuRU_KDd_PTKsTtVNN...

It doesn't seem very convincing in its conclusions, but has some interesting information nonetheless. I searched for some info on this doc, and it seems that its author really did hire some private investigators, I even found gofundme for it and places where the author asked for help in the early stages of their investigation. It seems they were trying to find the website owner because he hadn’t responded to requests to delete some personal things archived by a prolific stalker.

> Registering with a false name on who.is would mean taking the risk of having domain names cut off, which is not compatible with the desire to set up a long-term project, so there is a strong chance that Denis PETROV is the real name of the owner.

This is "Satoshi Nakamoto is Satoshi Nakamoto" levels of stupid, and clueless on so many levels that I think we can pretty safely dismiss the entire theory.

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