So you all remember when "new DPR" claimed to take over for "old DPR"?.....

Do you remember how old dpr never talked, ever, he rarely even released info when the site went down, then when was it, like may 2012?, new dpr claims to take over sr1 and is suddenly all talkative and shit. I always took it for a lame ploy to throw off the police as if this is some new guy so hey whatever they found so far doesnt count, but i did notice his behaviour was completely different, anyone else notice this?


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[9 Points] None:

It's actually annoying knowing that there is someone reading this knowing the whole story and just probably sitting there laughing at everyones cluelessness to who he/she is haha.


[4 Points] R4ID:

my theory is that it is both someone new and the old DPR saying around... my assumption is that english wasnt his first language so he wasnt very talkative, then he hired someone to ghost write/post for him. so he could now articulate his thoughts better :)


[3 Points] gwern:

May 2012 is the wrong time period. Remember the defense claim: that Ross ran the first few months, presumably something like January - May 2011, then was lured back around May 2013 (after the hits & Karpeles's lawyers meeting with the Marco Polo taskforce) to take the fall a few months later in October 2013. All of 2012 should be just business as usual at SR1.

If people really think that there was a big shift in May 2012 and this shows a change of ownership, this shows one of two things: the defense theory is wrong; or you're fooling yourselves. (Stylometrics is hard, let's go shopping!)


[2 Points] None:

I can't post it without sounding like I am pretending to know something all along, but I have emails that I sent in my bitcoin meetup group that when Mt. Gox crashed I said some day they would tie it to SR1.

I know my history here has posts where I say I don't believe Ross to be the real DPR.

I did not expect Karpales to be fingered, but I am not surprised now that the trial has started, that Ross is singing like a bird. I believe the original DPR would simply have refused to speak in any manner and taken whatever sentence he would have gotten. I just don't see it, and his talking like this in some manner I think is a strategy. I believe the jury - who I believe are not sequestered - are certainly reading anything they can, and I would bet money at least one knows about reddit and could very well be looking here.

Ross using an alternate version of events is a risky proposition - it's the same proposition as "someone else made all these drugs, I just agreed to sell them" when you're arrested in a room full of a billion xanax bars and pressing supplies.


[2 Points] Febbraio2468:

I remember commenting in the SR forums when DPR suddenly got chatty and started a book club and such. A lot of people noticed, that is why I think Ross was made the new DPR to be the fall guy when the shit hit the fan.


[1 Points] ChewyTheSheep:

Yeah. Could well have just been setting up his cover story in advance "just in case", once he realised he had previously exposed his real email address etc.

Then when shit hit the fan he used the cover story he set up long ago.

We can only speculate at this point.


[1 Points] -pixel-:

I wonder if pulling the captchas of SR2 was when the feds took over...

Obviously it was....great tactic....I hate fuckin captcha