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In September 2012, I was extorted for $44 $32 2012 for being gwern; I declined to pay. In November 2013, I called an encryption bluff that I was Dread Pirate Roberts. In December 2013, a crazy person tried to blackmail me for billions of dollars for being Satoshi Nakamoto; I declined to pay. In March 2014, the DNM⁠ Evolution threatened to dox me if I did not reveal information about their security vulnerabilities. In February 2015, an Agora user doxed me in an unexpected way and I paid a small bounty. W eird things happen on the Internet, sometimes⁠. I have long been interested in cryptographic topics, and in June 2011, I began researching the new darknet markets (DNMs), as epitomized by Silk Road 1⁠ (SR). Between my sustained coverage of DNM topics, occasional interventions like my Sheep-MarketPlace/BlackMarket-Reloaded bet, and my minor role in the doxing of Sheep MarketPlace’s owner, and my essays Bitcoin is Worse is Better⁠ & Time-lock cryptography⁠, I have been sometimes accused

--- title: Blackmail fail description: In which the author receives surprising offers from kind strangers created: 2013-12-10 modified: 2020-11-12 status: finished confidence: log importance: 2 css-extension: dropcaps-de-zs ... > In September 2012, I was extorted for [$32]($2012) for being gwern; I declined to pay. In November 2013, I called an encryption bluff that I was Dread Pirate Roberts. In December 2013, a crazy person tried to blackmail me for billions of dollars for being Satoshi Nakamoto; I declined to pay. In March 2014, the DNM Evolution threatened to dox me if I did not reveal inf

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