Blackmail Fail (2013)

The author, a writer and researcher focused on Bitcoin and darknet markets, received multiple extortion and blackmail attempts between 2012-2015 from people falsely claiming he was various notable figures like Dread Pirate Roberts or Satoshi Nakamoto, all of which he declined to pay. Despite his research and writing about cryptographic topics and darknet markets, these accusations were incorrect, though his notoriety sometimes proved useful for obtaining information. The author even offered a bounty for legitimate de-anonymization attempts, resulting in a few successful claims and several failed extortion attempts.