Want to make a hundred grand? Jameson Lopp, the bitcoin developer who was ‘SWATted’ last year, has offered a six-figure bounty to anyone who can help bring the perpetrator to justice. A PGP-signed message on his website states:
I, Jameson Lopp, hereby promise to pay a reward of $100,000 to the person who provides information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator who made a fraudulent report to Durham Police Department regarding my residence on October 16 2017.
(see http://lopp.net/swatting/bounty.txt.asc)
Lopp is an engineer for BitGo and has been outspoken about many issues in the bitcoin world. Back in October, when the scaling debate was raging, he speculated online that the goal of SegWit2x was to force Bitcoin Core into a block size increase.
That was two days before an anonymous troll reported a hostage situation at Lopp’s address, leading to ‘dozens of cops with rifles’ descending on his house. That episode marks the nadir of the scaling debate, which has since calmed: SegWit2x was cancelled, BCash turned out to be nothing more than a struggling altcoin. But the anonymous perpetrator of the ‘hoax’ has never been found, and Lopp is still (understandably) smarting about it.
If anyone knows anything about that, and wants to make a few BTC by bringing a troll to justice, now’s your chance.
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