Unmasking the Deceased Programmer Who Donated 28 Bitcoin to Capitol Hill Rioters. cryptobriefing.com/unmasking-dece…
French far-right hacker Laurent Bachelier aka "pankkake"
Here's the original investigation that found he sent 28.15 Bitcoins (about $522K) to 22 addresses, including many far-right US influencers & organizations blog.chainalysis.com/reports/capito… He also sent $26K to French neo-nazi & Holocaust denier Vincent Reynourard
The bitcoin donations were made on Dec 8, 2020, same day as his death, and a suicide note was auto-published on his blog on Dec 9, 2020 in 2 languages. If this death notice is accurate, he was 35: avis-deces.linternaute.com/nom/famille-ba…
Sidenote: he apparently did not like Apple products so if you are using a Mac/Safari, his blog will redirect you to a crash safari page.
Mac users click the archived links (there are lots)
His LinkedIn profile is now unavailable but was archived multiple times since 2008 so you can see several versions. Here's what his LinkedIn profile looked like in 2008 and 2013: web.archive.org/web/2013030100… (archives after 2016 default to LinkedIn's login page)
And here's his lovely blog: pankkake.headfucking.net Archived in 2013 here: archive.ph/oJ4Tk (see screenshot) and 2 days after his death here: archive.ph/CqlxU
A fascinating bitcointalk forum thread from 2013 where he offered his trolling services for payment 🧐 bitcointalk.org/index.php?topi…
He wrote his suicide note in French & English. The French version includes an extra sentence at the end: "Private documents are available in several ways, including electronic (encrypted for Romain Bignon)" and a tar.gpg link
(If anyone knows Mr. Bignon and can kindly ask him what the hell documents this guy left behind, would probably be good to know!)
Couple other profiles I found online for Bachelier:
Last.fm: last.fm/user/pankkake
Github: github.com/laurentb
Openhub: openhub.net/accounts/laure…
And you can probably search his email laurent@bachelier.name or username pankkake and find more stuff.
headfucking.net has also been archived (mac users click here: archive.ph/ztuWl)
And this
Just to finish this thread off, his suicide note includes the 14 words, an infamous white supremacist slogan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_…
So... yeah lovely guy!
I'm gonna stop here but if anyone else is digging into this guy's digital footprint, I'd be interested to know if he aided & abetted white supremacists, foreign or domestic, in other ways (ie: programming services) & anything else about his trolling services in English or French.
Oh one more profile, his social bookmarking site Pinboard: pinboard.in/u:pankkake/ archived once in 2016: web.archive.org/web/2016031023…
Hi @Pinboard this now deceased Bitcoin donor had an account on your platform just thought I’d flag it for you icymi blog.chainalysis.com/reports/capito… (see above thread for more info)
Another website archive.ph/ZKW0D
Previous thread with more stuff here:
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