For a loss of this scale, you'd think the authorities would start looking into Cotten's communication prior to all of this. I would imagine the things he spoke about with others would provide some clues.
> you'd think the authorities would start looking into Cotten's communication prior to all of this.
The irony is many of the people into bitcoin are the kind of people who think tax is theft and the government should get out of everything in their life.
... right up until they suffer a personal financial loss. Then it is up to the government to make them whole....
> ... right up until they suffer a personal financial loss. Then it is up to the government to make them whole....
I'm very much not a libertarian (or anarchist, or anything in that vicinity) but this is unfair. We all have to work within the existing structures of power; we can't just pretend that things are currently working the way they would in our utopia.
