It sounds like they paid for proxy services, and phoned home using them, in order to learn from which IPs their requests were proxies through.

Not that I've ever heard.

Why would one need a trustless distributed system to store document deltas published by an inherently trusted entity (federal government)?

this has been known for some time: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5469657.10

Whether by brute force or by way of clever tricks, the fact that they reverse engineered the source of these curves is impressive.

Onion soup sounds highly fungible.

Maybe if you put some mushrooms in it.

If you do not yet put in mushrooms it is fungible. If you put in mushrooms it is no longer fungible as it has already been fungid.

No more sound ordinance, just install Neuralink and receive free auto-mute during sleeping hours.

Agreed. So who are the outsider chumps taking the other ends of these bets? At this point, it doesn’t make sense to participate unless you’re an insider.

You can be an outsider with expertise, in which case you can still beat the non-expert outsiders.

So now who are the non-expert outsiders and why would they bet? Outsiders who think they are experts but are wrong.

Nice - if you can find a Redbox in your area, they seem to allow _very_ long rental periods these days :)

You'll be looking really really hard.

For those unawares at the humor attempt:

https://www.ign.com/articles/redbox-officially-shutting-down

incredible work!

such a nice way to remember their fallen teammates at the end there.

First time the shout outs weren’t just respect or cheese. RIP, til Valhalla.

PS: I never knew Westbam (of Love Parade fame?!) was involved.

Different Westbam. The DJ you're thinking of is still alive.

Thank you

The thing about gold is, it’s probably quite easy to secretly leave to your heirs.

Yes, I think so too. It's the only worthwhile reason to commit this crime, surely. You'd be relying on the claimants abandoning their claim at some point because surely the statute of limitations doesn't just apply because you were particularly good at hiding something. Realistically, they'd have to sell this to a collector many years later for much less than what they're worth (since they can't be sold on with proper provenance tracking).

It doesn't even seem worth it since the original investors wanted a fraction of the proceeds not all of it. Just seems like a strange choice, but I suppose that's why I'm not an intrepid underwater gold adventurer and this guy is.