Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 36

Ciro Santilli controls the following accounts.

With non-trivial activity:

Trivial or no activity:

Profiles without URLs (OMG...):

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:

Scott Hassan's ex-wife. She is a "Vietnam immigrant who attended Stanford University on a full scholarship".^[ref]

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?

Likely LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/appleverdiell/ using her likely pseudonym "Apple Verdiell".

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 :-)

Likely LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/aurélie-verdiell-b3512a187/

Caroline Ulbricht is the wife of Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road website which allowed users to buy and sell illegal drugs online. They reportedly met while he was in jail, but it is unclear how they met TODO source.

Caroline's 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.

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.

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:

For comments about China, first read:and then create a GitHub issue at: github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/new

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.

One of the dudes from the AtomSea & EMBII Bitcoin-based file upload system.

Really cool to see her focus on education, e.g. Moonshots in Education.

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: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:

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).

Some sources:

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.

Accounts:

Author of the prayer side of the Prayer wars.

Creator of Eligius pool Bitcoin mining pool.

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.

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]

Marc's LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/marc-verdiell-9742795/

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:which is translated into English as:but the full text is not available online.

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:

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.