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Man 300 is a lot… but I guess In his case that could be peanuts. Still, I wonder why he’d send himself 300 at once… why not spread it out?

The US government still owes him the rest they stole.

Only a few months out and he’s already laundering money. Love it!

if it doesn't bother you, why the note?

Bitcoin is freedom, no need to moralize others, neither impose any lifestyle on them.

just my two sats

maybe it’s tied to his unity talk. who knows!

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Yup. Didn’t two wallets from that era come back online just a couple weeks ago, too?

“Just my two sats”

Adding this to the lexicon!

Eh, it's a bit tricky with these things. I remember back in 2017 when Roger Ver made fun of Antonopoulos for not having much Bitcoin and the community donated a bunch of Bitcoin to Andreas, and he got 100+ BTC from a single donor. He wrote a long post about securing those coins and thanked people generally, but he didn't thank the whale donor.

Obviously a different case here, but as a recipient, you want to be careful not to put too much attention to your donor who might want to stay anonymous.

I thought the same but assumed forensics would show if it's been sitting idle until now..

yo thanks for scraping together the spare change from under your yacht cushions!

Perfect timing for self donation old goods after btc conference before hype ends

I have mixed feeling on this. Transparency is important, but it’s also important to remember that not only did the government steal and sell the bitcoin they seized from Silk Road, but federal agents decided to do crimes on their own and steal some for themselves. We always expected that someone would eventually come around with a donation for Ross, and it’s easy to imagine why that someone wouldn’t want to be identified, whether it’s actually him or not.

Who cares where it came from

nostr:npub1yrf6e774ggeylt7e7s784jv9ydawv5c4z5zj4arvvs04q7lkulvqdgkaz3 the “would you go to jail for 10 years for 300 Bitcoin?” Posts from OPs are coming, I can sense it 😂

Yall are just taking these zaps too damn far now!

21 sats is around 2 cents now so you can literally zap people your two cents

He might have thabked but now you made it weird 😉.

He can buy so many interesting shitcoins with that

Ross is the real life Andy Dufresne

If it was a self donation, someone needs to remind him that if you have 300 bitcoin that people don't already know you have, don't go moving it into an address that they know is yours. I'd HOPE he's learned a thing or two about the importance about privacy on the Internet after that whole post as altoid on Bitcointalk...

My boat lost control and ran into his address. Oops.

totally agree

if i was him i'd finish with all this fanfare and vanish to a ranch in a remote part of siberia or something with fake documents and make anonymous donations randomly to awesome stuff

well, anyway, i know Ross well enough that he likes to teach people austrian economics at least. but he will definitely have enemies who will mess with him. also i don't think he wants to be famous, he wouldn't have become a DPR if his own person was important to be recognised.

you gotta watch The Princess Bride to get that.

if someone sent me a 300 bitcoin donation nobody would ever hear from me again lol

Ooops. I meant "sats". Stupid wallet always switches back to BTC.

thats some monte cristo shit that. Fair play.

Ross rn

Dude has been in prison over a decade and is probably still coming to terms with that experience. Id give the guy a break on the optics bullshit.

My first thought was, “ooh that was generous.”

My second thought was, “ooh that was smart.”

Very interesting…

Gifts from Anonymous Individuals 🇺🇸

“If you receive a gift from an anonymous individual, it is typically not taxable to you. The donor may be subject to gift tax if the amount exceeds certain thresholds. As of 2025, the annual exclusion allows individuals to give up to $19,000 per recipient per year without incurring gift tax. Gifts exceeding this limit may count against the donor’s lifetime exemption of $13.99 million, and the donor is required to file IRS Form 709 to report such gifts.”

Source: ChatGPT

“Payment is a form of communication”

Jack Dorsey

Aren't most of his wallets fairly doxxed or otherwise easy to trace? What's the tx ID of the donation?

I really hope, five years from now, we’re not all saying “Yeah so it turned out he was a reckless guy who couldn’t stop touching hot stoves.”

Ross flirting with prison again 😅

They are clearly ₿ that he managed to save from the clutches of the state when he was arrested. Bravo he who eluded the authorities with part of his proceeds