> The Guy paid about a quarter of the original price tag.
Cool story but this line doesn't make sense to me? So did he just pay them $25k instead of $100k as agreed.
Am i missing or misunderstanding something?
The line read something like 'he thought he'd have to charge 100k' so he made an estimation of the required costs of infrastructure and hours worked I think. He probably communicated the 100k more as a 'I cost this per hour and the machines would likely cost so-and-so would you agree to pay this or can we call it off?'.
I got the idea that the 100k was a flat fee for decrypting, like 1/3rd of the bitcoin if he could do it. For someone who is about to lose all the moeny that too doesn't sound like a bad deal.
Cool story but this line doesn't make sense to me? So did he just pay them $25k instead of $100k as agreed. Am i missing or misunderstanding something?