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Honestly spending $210 000 on crypto in 2011 was a ridiculously risky move. No way the guy knew what he was doing, just tremendous luck (and just as much fucking stupidity)
He was probably a foreign agent or government. BTC was invented and supported so spies could move money across borders without being caught by official government bodies/banks. Esp since a lot of spies do things like illegal drug trafficking, gun trafficking, human trafficking, etc. That's why BTC was so popular on 4chan early on -4chan recently was hacked ~~and it was confirmed there were government emails registered on the site.~~ this last part is not true, it has been debunked, I still think that is why 4chan had BTC ads from users constantly so early though.
There's also slave groups of people forced to scam for crypto, NPR did a story about it on Planet Money. It's entirely possible they are imprisoned or those are otherwise spy lead networks
Source…? I feel like this needs sources.
Tin foil trust me bro