Most likley scenario this is a planted manufactured media anti Bitcoin campaign.
How come?
There are plenty of reasons to try and hurry to get rid of a world currency that does not go down in value
and is out of their control so they cant print money.
A currency that does not spy on people and force people to give their money to banks and dont spy on them-
Before people get to understand how good it is.
If there really are hackers having the information.
There is not a single reason for them to go in public with having the information.
If they wanted money.
Not a single one.
They simply would not go to a newspaper, they would go to
where the money is.
If hackers wanted to get payed in Bitcoin.
They would not go public to a newspaper with that info.
Since it would mean the value of Bitcoin could be negatively affected.
If real hackers wanted to get payed.
They would not publish the adress in public in a newspaper.
Because now he cant pay.
Since its public it would be like showing everyone he is guilty.
Thus it becomes impossible to pay.
The fact that its in a newspaper.
It specifically mentions Bitcoins as the payment method.
The adress is published so everyone can look at it.
And even tells everyone what it is they should look at.
Its a joke.
The first rule of a true extortion, to NOT reveal the info you want to get payed for.
But there are plenty of nice reasons to create such a fake campaign.
1. Fool Obama team to send Bitcoins to the adress. WIN
Get journalist a reason to show everyone that he did pay his taxes.
Make Mitt Romney appear as a hero. Who have nothing to hide. WIN
Make Bitcoin look like a bad payment system. WIN.
Buy cheap Bitcoin and get it regulated. Value goes up. Tripple WIN.
Or get a public consensus created a reason to crack down on Bitcoin. Tripple WIN.
So no obviously absolutly no reason to go to a small newspaper if this was real.
Plenty of reason to go to a small newspaper and "plant the made up story" if this was fake.
Another reason if its a fake.
2. Mitt Romney really is guilty. Publish it as something "hackers" found out. Mitt Romney is stuck. He cant pay so the documents will be released. Win. Make Bitcoin look like a bad payment system Win.
Buy cheap Bitcoin and get it regulated. Value goes up. Tripple win.
Or a created a reason to crack down on Bitcoin. Tripple WIN.
Its simply a campaign to connect Bitcoin with something bad.
The selected the tax info papers, because noone would get harmed and they ofcourse know that he had nothing to hide.
They made the misstake to publish the Bitcoin adress, so people would think it was something real.
Oh look, it even has a adress, it must be real by those hackers.
What really gives it away is that.
They didnt think of the fact that if it was real.
The adress would never hade been published and a newspaper never contacted.
Since it means he absolutly can not pay
Ofcourse they are not going to buy a lot of Bitcoins and send to a adress.
They just cant do that.
In short it screams a manufactured media campaign written all over it.
They want people to think they what they need is money that spy on them.
Their family, friends, mothers and fathers, politicians, judges etc.
Your Credit Card Is Spying on You
http://www.newser.com/story/85372/your-credit-card-is-spying-on-you.html
