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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 5299103, member: 73165&quot;]I wouldn&#039;t shed any tears for those investors.&nbsp; At $12.7M contributed by 161 people, that&#039;s an average of about $79K per investor.&nbsp; Anyone who can afford to put $79K into something like that, or even anyone who&#039;s likely to even hear about the opportunity, can afford to lose $79K.</p><p><br /></p><p>Besides, investments have risk.&nbsp; There was a huge upside on this, and a fairly limited downside.&nbsp; They knew what they were getting into, and if they didn&#039;t, then they should be glad their losses were fairly limited.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think it said that.&nbsp; It said the coins were under the control of a Belizean trust.&nbsp; I don&#039;t believe that implies that the coins are, or necessarily ever were in Belize.&nbsp; I guess I could be wrong, because I don&#039;t know anything about Belizean law.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The only crimes he&#039;s mentioned of being convicted of are failure to appear and contempt of court. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>What makes you think that?&nbsp; He apparently suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome, and I don&#039;t think even the government objected to that.&nbsp; They simply claimed that his condition had no bearing on the matter.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Having suffered myself from something like chronic fatigue syndrome for, luckily, only a few months, I can tell you with certainty that if he does have it, his brain is pretty much Swiss cheese right now. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m with the people who say he should be let out.&nbsp; After all, the Feds let out an alleged pedophile who was locked up for contempt for <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200210/14173343897/appeals-court-rules-that-people-cant-be-locked-up-indefinitely-refusing-to-decrypt-devices.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200210/14173343897/appeals-court-rules-that-people-cant-be-locked-up-indefinitely-refusing-to-decrypt-devices.shtml" rel="nofollow">over 4 years because he wouldn&#039;t decrypt some hard drives for them</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I admit I am not a lawyer, but I am curious how many of those who believe he should be let out are versus how many who think he needs to rot forever.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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