Accounts controlled by Ciro Santilli Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 1970-01-01
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Ciro Santilli controls the following accounts.
With non-trivial activity:
Trivial or no activity:
Profiles without URLs (OMG...):
  • Discord: username cirosantilli, previously cirosantilli#8921
Accounts in Chinese websites. These accounts might be banned or altered or offer other limitations, so Ciro only communicates briefly through them. All communication through those channels should obviously be assumed to be compromised:
Accounts in Russian websites:
Dead websites:
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Allison Huynh Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 2024-07-29
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Scott Hassan's ex-wife. She is a "Vietnam immigrant who attended Stanford University on a full scholarship".[ref]
Figure 1. Source. Visible in her LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/allison-huynh-57992a4.
Video 1.
Why former Obama donor Allison Huynh is backing Trump by The Daily Signal
. Source. 2024, before the 2024 United States presidential election, possibly language barrier.
Video 2.
Silicon Valley Billionaire's Divorce Makes Headlines by NBC Bay Area
. Source. 2021.
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Apolline Verdiell Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 2025-02-23
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Younger daughter of Marc Verdiell. The justification for this claim can be found at Section "Marc Verdiell's children".
In 2022 she started a Biomolecular Engineering BS at the University of Chicago. By 2024 she was already a research assistant at the Joyce Chen Lab which focuses on stem cell and tissue engineering research for cancer research, so somewhat in the same vein as her mother. She also lists poverty alleviation volunteering activities in her page. She must be cool, and secretly Marc's favorite daughter given that we went into STEM.
It is midly curious that she went to the same university as her elder sister Apolline. Was it because of her sister, or do they have other links to Chicago somehow?
Figure 1.
Apolline Verdiell's LinkedIn profile picture.
Source.
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Aurelie Verdiell Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 2025-02-23
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Elder daughter of Marc Verdiell. The justification for this claim can be found at Section "Marc Verdiell's children".
She studied arts and communication. Nooooo. She must be Marc's less liked daughter :-)
Figure 1.
Aurelie Verdiell's LinkedIn profile picture.
Source.
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Caroline Ulbricht Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 2025-02-11 2025-03-25
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Her maiden name is very likely "Caroline Debrion" as per stalking of her online accounts below. Her middle name might start with an L giving "Caroline L. Debrion", but this is less certain.
Likely accounts:
Possibly related profiles but uncertain:
Ciro Santilli first found her name mentioned without source at: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ross_Ulbricht_Released_from_Prison_(cropped).jpg. Her first name "Caroline" was given by Ross at: x.com/RealRossU/status/1888299042146578925 on February 8th 2025.
As of 2025 most Google hits currently give "Rebecca Caroline Ulbricht Ferreira" however, an unrelated Brazilian molecular biology researcher from UNICAMP. So a good Google search is "caroline ulbricht" -Rebecca to remove the overlap. This leads to www.linkedin.com/in/carolineld/ hits.
x.com/pete_rizzo_/status/1882489065167356024 has a photo of them hugging at the jail parking lot just after he was released in 2025.
Figure 1.
Ross Ulbricht with his wife soon after he was released from jail in 2025 in front of a mural
. Source. He still seems to be in jail clothes?
Figure 2.
Ross Ulbricht with his wife soon after he was released from jail in 2025 on the road
. Source.
Figure 3.
Ross Ulbricht's wife LinkedIn profile picture according to facecheck.id
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Figure 4.
Ross Ulbricht's wife's wife credly.com profile picture according to facecheck.id
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Figure 5.
Ross Ulbricht's wife's wife meetup.com profile picture according to facecheck.id
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Ciro Santilli's formal education Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 1970-01-01
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Ciro Santilli participated in a double degree program, so he obtained have engineering degrees in both:
See also further remarks on Ciro Santilli's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cirosantilli/
Despite studying in great institutions with great teachers, Ciro feels that:
This motivated Ciro to work on OurBigBook.com.
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How to contact Ciro Santilli Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 1970-01-01
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Ciro Santilli is very happy to meet people with related interests, he really loves his like-minded online friends. Even if you don't have something a specific goal in mind for the contact, please just say hi.
To contact Ciro publicly about any general subject that is not covered in a more specific GitHub repository, including saying hi or suggestions about his website either:
Publicly viewable contact is preferred if possible to more effectively share Ciro's wisdom with the world.
But if you feel more comfortable with private contact, no problem, either:
For other less good methods that will also work, use direct messages of the following profiles from under Section "Accounts controlled by Ciro Santilli":
If you are a privacy freak or are going to tell Ciro state secrets Ciro has this GNU Privacy Guard public key: pubkey.gpg.
Disqus comments were removed from his website in 2019-05-04, a manual dump is available here, removal rationale at: why Ciro Santilli removed Disqus comments from his website in 2019-05-04.
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EMBII Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 1970-01-01
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One of the dudes from the AtomSea & EMBII Bitcoin-based file upload system.
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EMBII's usual profile image
. Source.
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Esther Wojcicki Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 2025-03-08
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Really cool to see her focus on education, e.g. Moonshots in Education.
Figure 1.
Esther Wojcicki
. Source.
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Gordon Linoff Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 1970-01-01
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Infinitely many SQL answers.
As mentioned at Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow contributions, he just answers every semi-duplicate immediatly as it is asked, and is therefore able to overcome the Stack Overflow maximum 200 daily reputation limit by far. E.g. in 2018, Gordon reached 135k (archive), thus almost double the 73k yearly limit due to the 200 daily limit, all of that with accepts.
This is in contrast to Ciro Santilli's contribution style which is to only answer questions as he needs the subject, or generally important questions that aroused his interest.
2014 Blog post describing his activity: blog.data-miners.com/2014/08/an-achievement-on-stack-overflow.html, key quote:
For a few months, I sporadically answered questions. Then, in the first week of May, my Mom's younger brother passed away. That meant lots of time hanging around family, planning the funeral, and the like. Answering questions on Stack Overflow turned out to be a good way to get away from things. So, I became more intent.
so that suggests his contributions also take a meditative value.
www.data-miners.com/linoff.htm mentions he's an SQL consultant that consulted for several big companies.
LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/gordonlinoff/ says he now works at the New York Times.
2021 Reddit thread about him: www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/puok1h/a_single_person_answered_76k_questions_about_sql/ mentions that by then he had:
answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow. Averaging 22.8 answers per day, every day, for the past 8.6 years.
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Julia Vie Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 1970-01-01
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Ross Ulbricht told her about Silk Road, but then later said he had sold the website to someone else, without really doing that.
As of 2023, she's apparently a photographer with a porny focus (boudoir photography).
Figure 1.
Julia Vie and Ross Ulbricht
. Source.
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kenorb Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 2024-11-04
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Ciro Santilli feels that this user has a surprisingly similar contribution pattern (one of the top necromancers) and subjects (Python, Bash) to Ciro Santilli.
Ciro tried to contact him to say hi, but it was hard to find a contact. kenorb, feel free to send Ciro a hi one of those days. Ciro knows kenorb knows Ciro exists because kenorb has in the past starred some of Ciro's stuff, e.g. github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer from Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain.
His GitHub github.com/kenorb gives name Rafal W. and links to some trading stuff: github.com/EA31337, especially compatible with his stated location of London.
Rafal is Rafael in Polish: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafał It would normally have the l with a stroke, but ASCII.
His LinkedIn sys the R3 company he works at is actually a blockchain company: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R3_(R3CEV), FOREX appears to be his on-the-side.
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Luke Dashjr Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 1970-01-01
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Accounts:
Author of the prayer side of the Prayer wars.
According to LinkedIn he studied at the Benedictine College in Kansas.
TODO is his real birthname "Luke Dash Jr."?
Apparently he had his coins stolen in January 2023, then worth $3.5m: blog.cryptostars.is/luke-dashjr-an-original-bitcoin-developer-loses-all-his-btc-88421c395ce5p...
www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/4936kw/lukejr_is_a_seriously_a_super_crazy_person_quotes/ "Luke-Jr is a seriously a super crazy person quotes gigathread." (2016) on Reddit. Apparently he has some fun views of life.
Figure 1. Source.
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Marc Verdiell Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 1970-01-01
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Marc Verdiell is a French electrical engineer born in 1963 or 1964[ref] and best known for being the creator and host of the CuriousMarc YouTube channel where he does mind blowing repairs and reverse engineering of vintage computers and other electronic equipment.
Marc made $58.4m from the sale of LightLogic, an optoelectronics company he founded, to Intel in April 2001. This was just after the dot-com crash, but Intel apparently still correctly believed that the networking and the Internet would continue to grow and was investing in the area. His associate Frank Shum sued claiming he should be credited for some of the inventions sold but lost and Marc got it all.[ref][ref][ref]. Marc was then almost immediately appointed an Intel fellow at the extremelly early age of 37, and then stayed for a few years at Intel until 2006 according to his LinkedIn.[ref][ref]
Figure 1.
Marc Verdiell at the Computer History Museum
. Source. Location inferred from Marc's videos, but likely, he often frequents the place, and it looks a bit like that.
Marc's full name is actualy Jean-Marc Verdiell, but Ciro Santilli remembers there was one YouTube video where he mentions he gave up on "Jean" partly because anglophones would murder its pronounciation all the time.
ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/20160274316 also suggests he may have a seldom used middle name "André", though that would be unusual in French custom
Marc's PhD thesis is listed at: theses.fr/1990PA112048 and it is entitled:
Mise en phase de reseaux de lasers a semi-conducteur
which is translated into English as:
Phase locking of semiconductor laser arrays
but the full text is not available online.
Video 1.
Profile of Marc Verdiell by Gizmodo (2018)
Source.
youtu.be/tJ2-kkhghD4?t=74 gives his house's location Atherton, California, part of Silicon Valley. youtu.be/tJ2-kkhghD4?t=279 shows his amazing garden a bit more.
youtu.be/ZgAreiFXhJk?t=253 lists some famous people who live there. It's like a micro heaven.
And a person who makes open educational content like Marc, truly deserves it.
radaris.com/p/Jean-Marc/Verdiell/ and many other sources list the exact address as:
48 Linden Ave, Atherton, CA 94027
On Google Maps: maps.app.goo.gl/LM2iN9fz6YBteggp8
www.realtyhop.com/property-records/search/hoang-oanh-verdiell mentions that the property was bought on 2013-11-07 for $8,650,000 and lists other properties they've bought and sold and possibly inhabited:
  • 2002-03-21: sold 4159 El Camino Way, Palo Alto, CA Unit B
  • 2001-06-18: bought 763 Florales Dr, Palo Alto, CA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEcnjh0lSsY give a tour of the house given by the real state agent Ken DeLeon. The dude has a very suspicious Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_DeLeon He is mentioend e.g. at www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2013/12/20/ken-deleon-top-silicon-valley-sales-agent-why-chinese-buyers-love-palo-alto/ as selling a lot to the Chinese.
A quick look on Google Maps show that that area is full of some incredible mansions. They managed to keep the entire place green and every house has a pool. Wikipedia comments web.archive.org/web/20220906010554/https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/features/most-expensive-zip-codes-us/:
Atherton is known for its wealth; in 1990 and 2019, Atherton was ranked as having the highest per capita income among U.S. towns with a population between 2,500 and 9,999, and it is regularly ranked as the most expensive ZIP Code in the United States [(94027)]. The town has very restricting zoning, only permitting one single-family home per acre and no sidewalks. The inhabitants have strongly opposed proposals to permit more housing construction
and Forbes confirms it for 2022: web.archive.org/web/20220906010554/https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/features/most-expensive-zip-codes-us/, by far on top.
Starting in 2016, Marc appears to be have had a small court battle with some building contractors led by the Yip family, Cynthia Yip and Wai Yip, as Javelin Construction Inc. for selling them "a brand-new but defective home for $9m. The Verdiells then spent $5.3m further renewing it."[ref]. After endless back-and-forth, the Verdiell's won $1.2m in 2024.[ref]
Video 2.
Soyuz Clock Part 4: How accurate is it? by CuriousMarc (2020)
Source.
The timestamp youtu.be/HKsjwT53yXw?t=580 mentions that his wife is called "Lori", and that she escaped the Soviet Union, and two of her brothers went to jail in the escape process.
The name is kind of hard to hear, but Google resolves it for us e.g. she and Marc were donnors to the Computer History Museum d1yx3ys82bpsa0.cloudfront.net/core/core-2019.pdf
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Marc Verdiell's children Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 2025-02-23
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Marc Verdiell likely has two daughters, the elder Aurelie and the younger Apolline who goes by "Apple Verdiell". Her names are listed at: www.whitepages.com/name/Lori-Verdiell, and the fact that their LinkedIn profiles:
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Ross Ulbricht Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 1970-01-01
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Figure 1.
Ross Ulbricht's LinkedIn profile picture
. Source. Still up as of 2023: www.linkedin.com/in/rossulbricht/
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Social media feed that forces you to see posts by non-followed Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 1970-01-01
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During the early 2020s, many of the idiotic social media platforms started adding a non optional "feature" of suggesting feed posts by people you don't follow:
It must have been some A/B testing overload that made that decision to try and make things more addictive for everyone. Or perhaps as a way to drive revenue with people paying to cheat the algorithm and boost their posts.
European Union we need you.
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