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But not a bunch of friends that can keep such a huge secret and resist touching those (very valuable) early mined coins.

With multiple people in a consortium, I cannot believe that one of them can resist appearing on the front page of Time magazine. Loners are much better at staying hidden. E.g. the Unibomber or any number of serial killers who worked alone.




>>> I cannot believe that one of them can resist appearing on the front page of Time magazine.

I agree on this point. But if you have three people with the integrity and high moral cause, there's no reason a group of people can keep a secret.

Look at all the secret societies we currently have just in this country.

>>> Loners are much better at staying hidden. E.g. the Unibomber or any number of serial killers who worked alone.

This, however is not true in terms of serial killers. Most get caught because they want to get caught and like the media attention and the trying to out smart the police.

The only reason the unabomber got caught was that he was upset about the 9/11 bombing overshadowed one of his recent bombings and was stealing his media attention. Shortly thereafter, he insisted his manifesto be published, which then led his brother to turn him in after he read it.

It was the very pursuit of attention that you say leads groups to not be able to keep secrets that did in many high profile serial killers who often worked alone.

The one exception being either the Zodiac killer or the Golden State killer who you could just as easily call outliers.




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