New York — An unknown crypto-currency trader turned $55m of paper wealth into $283m in just more than a month. The only clue about this person or persons, beyond a virtual wallet with the identification code 0x00A651D43B6e209F5Ada45A35F92EFC0De3A5184, surfaced on a June 11 Instagram posting, in the Bahasa language, in which he or she (or they, or somebody posing as them) boasted about the 413% profit accumulated earlier this year from ether, the digital money of the Ethereum blockchain. "I get many private messages asking how much ether I have," the post read, alongside photos that purported to be the hardware powering a mining operation but looked lifted from another website. "One of the cool things about Ethereum is that all wallets around the world are transparent and open for everyone to see. And this is my wallet’s savings." Hidden identities are a popular feature of the twilight world of virtual money. Now that the total value of crypto-currency, such as bitcoin and ether, soa...
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