Blackmail Fail (2013)

I didn't know who this is but it seems to be some guy who writes about bitcoin and dark web markets and was sort of trying to stay anonymous but put a doxxing bounty on himself (of like $39). He was discovered thusly:

> At this link ([]), in the comments, you messed up by having your real name next to the Gwern avatar.

I kind of like the weird inline inflation calculator thing but ultimately I think it's more distracting than useful. That's definitely true of the "years ago" thing. Neat idea, but not a good one.

> Michael O’Kelly in the Google+ comments pointed out that the scheme was also in conflict with option-value/learning

I miss Google+ (and even more Google Buzz that came before it, and FriendFeed before that).

It's true that it was mostly a failure, but the fact that 2011 Google engineers were encouraged to participate in public on it meant there was a great seed for lots of really interesting technical discussions.

HN (and ML Twitter, and maybe a few sub-Reddits) are the closest substitutes now, but not really the same.

> He replied with another malformed PGP-encrypted message