Murder on the Internet: Manson House v2.0

He knew he had the ability to get away with heinous crimes on the internet, and he knew he had the ability to influence people into heinous actions.

Heinous crimes on the internet: A year beforehand he manipulated access he had to a service in order to generate Ripple (another kind of Bitcoin, anonymous online money). While he racked up a bill totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars on a ‘borrowed’ account through a cloud of proxies, VPN connections and on a virtual machine locked down within his computer — he made $4000 with no risk and fees he never intended to pay. He was fine with this, ‘taking from the rich and giving to him’ while the person whose account he hijacked would have had the fees reversed in such a case.

In case you have no idea what this means, here’s an excerpt from a CNBC article (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/14/bitcoin-ether-litecoin-ripple-differences-between-cryptocurrencies.html):

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By now, you’ve no doubt heard about the massive bitcoin rally this year. And you may also have read about other cryptocurrencies, such as litecoin and Ethereum, surging too.

But there are over 1,300 cryptocurrencies in existence. And while bitcoin dominates the market, several other digital currencies are making waves.