alt Hacker NewsI don't see how that is relevant? If he really did steal that money, it's not his to give.
You can't take someone's money and then not only not give it back, but also give it away.
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Sure you can. It just requires more steps, expensive suits, and using terms like "leveraged buyout". He just went about it wrong.
from my admittedly brief research into it, $GAS was sending him transaction fees, as it desired the association. So it wasn't him selling a tangible number of coins to a particular person. So I figure to pay it back, he'd have to trace down the owners of every tx and pay them back the tx fee. Perhaps that's easy, perhaps its non-trivial. According to the tweet[0] he made yesterday, in order to donate the combined funds to charity he has to submit 230 separate transactions on his phone.
Cult 101: Building a massive reality distortion field as a kind of team sport always means forgiving any/all crimes from thought-leaders. Bonus points if you make the crimes look like a virtue
It’s more like some cryptocurrency scammers tried to bribe him to promote their coin and he took the money and refused to stay bribed so the coin tanked. As it would have eventually, because it was a pump and dump.
Why should the scammers who gave him the money get it back? They knew what they were doing, even if Yegge seemed a bit naive about it.