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Variety Jones is one of those "fogotten architects", who alleges that a corrupt FBI officer is blackmailing him / feeding him inside information in order to gain access a password protected BitCoin wallet worth $70 million that the FBI agent stole from Ross Ulbricht: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/variety-jones-a-corrupt-fbi...

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Forum post with a lot more info: http://www.myplanetganja.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11022&star...

(Variety Jones == Plural of Mongoose)

Care to summarise any of the interesting parts, or is it worth holding on and checking this at home? I'm at work and I suspect clicking on "myplanetganja.com" will not go down well with our infra team. Also what does "Variety Jones == Plural of Mongoose" mean?

This url leads to forum posts that is written by guy named "Plural of Mongoose". I skimmed it over and it reads like memoirs of main (bad?) character from Noir book. Definitely worth a read if you're into that.

Agree, I just checked it out there's a lot going on. Sort of reminds me of McAfee's ramblings

simon aka Varity Jones aka Plural of Mongoose writes a very long, well written tale with many dubious elements about his life after Silk Road collapses. It supposedly involves high level corruption, $75M of stolen Bitcoin that needs a password, and a beach holiday. It's worth reading, he definitely has a nice style regardless of how much truth there is in the story.

Great example of panopticon-like surveillance leading to people self-censoring since they are afraid of being monitored.

I highly recommend reading the forum post linked above. Engagingly written, and with some exciting plot twists for people who have been following Darknet Market drama; and perhaps it's even true.

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