No he was spending the bitcoin, some random thieves broke into his house and stole stuff and a laptop or some shit, he reported a shitload of bitcoin stolen and the local PD reported this to the IRS or FBI I forget, they then raided his house and found his safe and all of the other bitcoin on his devices. The guy just wasn’t smart about the whole thing, on the other hand that one gym bro schizophrenic linux guy got raided and forgot to yank his USB key for his tails session, exposing shitloads of his illegal darkweb transactions. Only for the brain dead woman cop to yank the fucking USB out on her own.
What makes you think these things will remain active when Youtube starts locking down fully? yt-dlp doesn’t work for Twitter without login credentials any longer and Bibliogram died because instagram locked down. As is, Nitter is just barely hanging on.
Youtube is aware of Invidious and has started throwing lawsuits around. Eventually they’re going to take the Reddit route and kill the generous free API limits and Invidious will die as well.