Because of greed. There is more money he can milk, severance if hes fired, and a huge salary. Not like being CEO is very difficult. You have underlings for everything all you do is say yes/no in meetings and play golf with other CEOs. You have hundreds of managers beneath you for delegating layoffs just send them an email to can half the staff and your days work is done, collect your giant bonus
This is why Satoshi took careful measures to ensure he stayed anonymous. If he was still around he would be in jail right beside this guy. LR actually did a lot of KYC compliance problem is they allowed Americans to use the system which means inevitable indictment. Cgold is probably next if the operators are stupid enough to travel to a country with extradition.
There will also be a mass bitcoin arrest eventually to crack down on everybody operating without an MSB, like extraditing Euro exchange operators who do biz with Americans. Because of decentralization Bitcoin will survive any crackdown
Satoshi created Bitcoin, but did/does not operate a Bitcoin exchange, so far as we know. This prosecution is centered around LibertyReserve being a money transmitting business without registering/following guidelines (e.g. know your customer, etc).
LR does not operate an exchange either, though I suspect exchangezone was run by them. Lr contracted that out much like how bitcoin (and soon ripple) have gateways into the system to buy in.
In my country theres a foreign worker scam that allows Indian companies to fly in the worst IT staff complete with fake resumes and pays them $6/hr for a year to screw up their website with dozens of SSL certs and slow security theatre that pretends to do something but is just a little flash to watch while you wait forever to load their junk software.
major banks here all made at least a trillion in profit last year but couldnt be arsed to pay for legit IT staff. now we all suffer paying tax dollars to track down all these thieves who easily fraud their faces off with the terribad security and poor code quality
This is just one of many cashout crews at the bottom of the crime pyramid that got caught. The masterminds are prob in Russia/Ukraine and wont be extradited so long as they arent stupid enough to go to a country on vacation that has extradition treaty with the US or they will find themselves getting kidnapped by feds to stand trial in the US, for a middle east bank heist because USA polices the world and your taxpayers cover the millions it will cost in flights and court fees/investigation
valve said last yr they would start porting to linux to avoid microsoft 8 store plans where they want to restrict software sales to the "microsoft app store" and shave 20% fees from all sales. this would destroy the steam delivery model so makes sense they are diversifying
Nobody remembers the Linode bitcoin "hack" where it was assumed by bitcointalk that an admin was looting accounts? Im surprised anybody still uses them.
i had to install a testing snapshot May 4 because wasn't sure when they were releasing stable wheezy, and needed it immediately.
only package that broke the next day after full dist-update was "less" which for some reason will not co-exist with man-db. that was it though everything else updated fine
Theo de raadt already blasted Redhat and Ubuntu for instantly compromising and submitting to microsoft. Linux foundation non resistance makes no sense to me either since a lot of people who sit on the board are direct competitors to M$ you'd think they would want to save their companies from being at their mercy.
I'm waiting for when cloud o/s takes over that scans for pirate software/dissident behaviour or thought crime, and it becomes illegal to run your own operating system. There will be a Silk Road for computer hardware and guy's peddling BSD installs in dark alleys.
What should they have done? As I see it, they had three options with secure boot: find ways to work with it (as they have), try to get OEMs to disable secure boot or ship with a 'Linux key' as well, or ignore it and let users who want to install Linux deal with it.
Making users disable secure boot makes it that much harder and scarier to try Linux, so there would be even fewer users in the future. And I see no evidence that OEMs care enough about Linux to go out of their way to make life easier, even if someone did produce a 'Linux key' to sign all the major distributions. There are a precious few small OEMs that sell computers with Linux, but mostly to existing Linux users. If desktop Linux isn't going to fade into complete irrelevance, we're still crucially dependent on people experimenting with it on Dell/Lenovo/Acer Windows laptops.
Bitcoin transactions are visible/traceable, but doesn't mean you can match txn to identities.
If there is one address in the middle of you paying somebody, and that address was generated either offline or through Tor, there's no way to prove you own that address unless somebody can extract the private keys from your seized hardware and match it up to the public address.
Transactions don't prove anything, anyways. If you sell on localbitcoins or IRC, you have no idea that the anon guy who showed up to buy them with untraceable cash isn't directly 3rd party funding his Silk Rd account. If you look at the blockchain it would appear I paid into SR directly however I sold coins to some random guy I'll never see again, who's contact info I also don't have. Since I sell under my countries $10k cash transaction limit I don't need to take ID or retain contact info. Tracing that transaction proves nothing.
I also can't recall any of the major bitcoin heists being recovered. Only one exchange (mtgox) has a history of holding transactions for ID if they appear to be stolen coins, and they've only done it twice: first time was cleared up with ID, second time they're still holding the coins (bitcoinica/linode theft). Every other bitcoin heist you've heard of through the years the trace leads to nowhere.
Go on localbitcoins and find people who mail cash for bitcoins, or find somebody on IRC to do it.
Sell them bitcoins, have them mail the cash to SDF for your payment. Now you avoid all the problems of physically mailing something from where you live. It's actually common for people to ask for single US bills in the mail too, for collecting.
I also would edit Torrc file to use semi trusted exit nodes from torservers.net so you aren't using a malicious exit node.
