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I'd wager Ross only kept enough coins accessible from the machine hosting SL for day-to-day operations, and sent the extra proceeds to an account the production machines didn't have access to, one with the private key either on his personal laptop or in a safety deposit box.

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Maybe he buried his BitCoin wallet in the desert.

So what we are saying here is that there might be actual modern burried pirate treasure somewhere. Awesome.

What's unfortunate for DPR is that, even if there is a pirate's booty out there, the whole murder for hire thing and being an accessory, if not a patricipant, in a massive amount of drug trafficking makes it very likely that he will spend a large chunk, if not the rest of his life, in prison, making the 80 mil all but unusable to him.

he can buy a lot of cigarettes

I would think he could get some very high quality legal representation w/ $80 million lurking out there. Although it might be complicated by the fact that he won't be allowed out on pre-trial release. And let's face it; he could very well be the fall guy for the originators of Silk Road and not the "real" Dread Pirate Roberts at all.

As far as I'm concerned, the murder-for-hire thing is bullshit.

If I may ask - why do you think so?

As far as i'm concerned the whole libertarian crusader thing was bullshit.

I'm pretty sure it was a reference to Breaking Bad character Walter White burying his $80mm dollars in barrels in the ground somewhere in the deserts of New Mexico.

Spoilers much?

Oof, sorry! Didn't think about spoiler tags on HN.

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