
District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, a man evidently burdened with the weight of modern crime, declared, with the solemnity befitting such an announcement, that his Virtual Currency Unit had formally accused Mr. Spektor of a most elaborate fraud. He did masquerade, it seems, as a representative of Coinbase, that vast and impersonal exchange of digital currencies, informing unsuspecting users that their fortunes were about to be… spirited away by nefarious forces. And, naturally, he offered the only sensible solution: transferring said fortunes to a wallet of his choosing. One almost admires the audacity, if not for the sorrowful outcome. He was known, amongst a certain digital circle, as “Ronaldd”- a moniker that now rings with a distinctly unsavory tone.