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Author Topic: Anyone know what happened to knightmb and his 371,000 BTC?  (Read 81457 times)
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June 08, 2017, 06:41:01 PM
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Knightmb would have been a billionaire now if he had held on to his 371,000 BTC. Cheesy

$2,742 X 371,067.36 = $1,017,466,701.12

Instead he's in the federal slammer for extorting the Romney's Sad

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/16/romney_tax_return_hacker_dr_evil_gets_his_sentence_overturned/

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Nobody needed to crack Tor, however: when he offered his story around, he left enough information about himself on the USB keys he sent media outlets (as well as a couple of cat pics).

From the judgement:

    All three flash drives contained a file named “Romney1040-Collection.7z.” ... The unallocated space on the drives also held text strings and two photos of cats. The PricewaterhouseCoopers flash drive held the text string, “5276 dolphin kathryn.” … The Democratic Party drive had the string “4154 dolphin KnightMB.”

    A series of Google searches using “KnightMB” revealed an email address, knightmb@knightmb.dyns.org, and that a 33 year-old Tennessean named Michael Brown made online posts connected to that address

Interesting how he got caught.

He should have just enjoyed his money and pay his taxes instead of getting in trouble. People's greed for power is always their downfall.
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June 08, 2017, 06:52:55 PM
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i'll bet he still has most. he claimed to have given most of it away to wikileaks and the rest went on paying off some debts. musta been quite a windfall for wikileaks and a significant amount of debt even when bitcoin was valued at a dollar.

however i don't get his involvement in some weird alt and all this extortion stuff.

he also claims to have more than a few clues about satoshi's real location and could verify his online identity due to some private communications.
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December 27, 2017, 02:13:16 PM
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knightmb posting on the Turkish boards now? Huh

Watch out we have Keyser Soze on our hands Grin
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March 06, 2018, 09:05:54 AM
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knightmb posting on the Turkish boards now? Huh

Watch out we have Keyser Soze on our hands Grin
He gone dormant again..
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September 12, 2018, 06:40:35 AM
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knightmb posting on the Turkish boards now? Huh

Watch out we have Keyser Soze on our hands Grin

knightmb posting on the Turkish boards now? Huh

Watch out we have Keyser Soze on our hands Grin
He gone dormant again..

So then maybe it wasn't mike brown at all? I was going back to read how the connection was made, but seems it was pure speculation?
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September 13, 2018, 08:18:20 AM
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I figure something foul is afoot if he is still missing.  $100000 doesn't usually just go missing, looks like the next block chain should be dedicated to finding out just what happened to this fellow.
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October 28, 2018, 01:58:06 PM
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Now just a lot of people who do not understand what it is, but rowing out of the herd feeling, thinking that it will grow endlessly and of course the growth will be good, joined the topic of bitcoin.
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February 12, 2021, 12:36:54 PM
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işin içinde Türk varsa, baştan sonra tekrar incele
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