Bitcoin Forum Bitcointalk.org Receives and Answers First Subpoena from DOJ
Earlier this week, Bitcointalk.org administrator Theymos posted to the Bitcoin Forum to update the community that he had received a subpoena regarding Ross Ulbricht's alleged forum handle, altoid. The subpoena from the Assistant United States Attorney of the Southern District of New York, which has been uploaded by Theymos here, starts with: "GREETINGS: WE COMMAND YOU." The DOJ requested that Theymos turn over these specific items: (1) A copy of all posts to the "bitcointalk.org" discussion forum by the user associated to the username "altoid". (2) A copy of the full discussion thread on....
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Earlier this week it was reported that bitcoin's main forum had experienced some unexpected downtime. As we've gotten accustomed to from other incidents with bitcointalk, the discussion was taken to the bitcoin subreddit where theymos, the forum's administrator, confirmed that there were some issues with the storage disks. After he claimed to have fixed the problems and brought the forum back online, users are unable to access the forum once again. Bitcointalk's downtime and data loss. Theymos finally posted an update on the situation hours after users had started complaining about the....
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