“Blackmail Fail”, 2013-12-10 (; backlinks; similar):
In which the author receives surprising offers from kind strangers
In September 201212ya, I was extorted for $44.04$322012 for being gwern; I declined to pay. In November 201311ya, I called an encryption bluff that I was Dread Pirate Roberts. In December 201311ya, a crazy person tried to blackmail me for billions of dollars for being Satoshi Nakamoto; I declined to pay. In March 2014, the DNM Evolution threatened to dox me if I did not reveal information about their security vulnerabilities. In February 2015, an Agora user doxed me in an unexpected way and I paid a small bounty.