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This is extremely likely. The SilkRoad admins all have access to the old (and the new) DPR forum account. One of them was using it even after Ross was arrested, leading someone to ask why DPR was showing up on the active members list of the SR forum even after be was arrested.

Could that not have been the feds?

Libertas said it was SR admins. If it's a lie, I can't think of a good reason for it.

Fair enough. I wasn't familiar with the situation, that just would have been the conclusion I jumped to, and wondered why it wasn't yours.

Thanks for the info.

It seems likely there were at least 2 DPRs. Ulbricht hints at this in his interview: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/an-inte...

The link to Ulbricht's identity as DPR seems to go back to the beginning of the site. It seems more plausible he did that interview and made up the multiple DPR story to:

A: Advertise his willingness to sell out.

B: Perhaps toss a bit of confusion onto anyone following him.

C: In the Princess Bride the Dread Pirate Roberts chooses a successor which will use the same name.

The name certainly implies so.