Blackmail Fail (2013)
Blackmail fail Bitcoin, cryptography, personal In which the author receives surprising offers from kind strangers 2013-12-10–6y2020-11-12 finished certainty: log importance: 2 backlinks similar bibliography Pseudonymity Bounty 2012 Anonymous 10 September Discussion Outcome 2013 DPR? 7 November 8 November jack0fnone 10 December 11 December 12 December 13 December 14 December 15 December 22 December 2014 March 16 2015 February November 2017 July November December See Also External Links Appendix Fanfiction In September 201214ya, I was extorted for $48.76$322012 for being gwern; I declined to pay. In November 201313ya, I called an encryption bluff that I was Dread Pirate Roberts.
- ▪Blackmail fail Bitcoin, cryptography, personal In which the author receives surprising offers from kind strangers 2013-12-10–6y2020-11-12 finished certainty: log importance: 2 backlinks similar bibliography Pseudonymity Bounty 2012 Anonymou
- ▪7 November 8 November jack0fnone 10 December 11 December 12 December 13 December 14 December 15 December 22 December 2014 March 16 2015 February November 2017 July November December See Also External Links Appendix Fanfiction In September 2
- ▪In November 201313ya, I called an encryption bluff that I was Dread Pirate Roberts.
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| Original publisher | Gwern |
| Canonical URL | https://gwern.net/blackmail |
| Publication time | Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:11:09 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-04T18:40:46.805Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-04T18:40:46.805Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | oMSijFGhudg9 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Blackmail fail Bitcoin, cryptography, personal In which the author receives surprising offers from kind strangers 2013-12-10–6y2020-11-12 finished certainty: log importance: 2 backlinks similar bibliography Pseudonymity Bounty 2012 Anonymous 10 September Discussion Outcome 2013 DPR? 7 November 8 November jack0fnone 10 December 11 December 12 December 13 December 14 December 15 December 22 December 2014 March 16 2015 February November 2017 July November December See Also External Links Appendix Fanfiction In September 201214ya, I was extorted for $48.76$322012 for being gwern; I declined to pay. In November 201313ya, I called an encryption bluff that I was Dread Pirate Roberts.
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