It says that the silk road was possibly took down by "de-anonymizing" of the transaction hashes?

Is that correct?  I thought the Pirate guy was caught through his own errors. 

Bitcoin is not anonymous, it is pseudonymous.

Not sure if it's already been posted:

http://www.gadflycapital.com/markets/gadfly_capital_2013_12_12_valuing_a_bitcoin.pdf

Based on an annual world gross product of $71 trillion, and presuming a 5% return on
capital, we can value the real assets of the world at $71 trillion/0.05 = $1.4 quadrillion. However, world
gross production is probably not utilizing resources at anywhere near 5%
, and so the true value of all the real assets is probably
much greater than this. As an order of magnitude though, the value of the real
assets is probably somewhere in the quadrillions of dollars, perhaps tens of quadrillions.

Many good points, but this was an LMAO:


10 quadrillion = 10 billion million. So a million for every person on the planet, and then some, and nobody's in debt etc. Hardly likely

he got caught by being a dumbass

4-figure, but not 5-figure amount. Why?

Many good points, but this was an LMAO:


10 quadrillion = 10 billion million. So a million for every person on the planet, and then some, and nobody's in debt etc. Hardly likely

Yeah it's new, like a less than an hour new