> The Ethereum address Medjedovic used for the attack included the number “1488”—shorthand for a neo-Nazi slogan—and he’d written the N-word into the code itself, 16 times. A Twitter user called him the “Dylan [sic] Roof of Balancer Pools,” a reference to the mass shooter who killed nine Black people at a church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015. Medjedovic liked the tweet.

Here’s another:

> Medjedovic apparently flirted with extremist ideas: The classmate says he heard him speak favorably about White supremacy and eugenics.

He is clearly a white supremacist, how is this “searching randomness for patterns they want to find”? This is speculation, but it wouldn’t surprise me if this guy generated lots of addresses until he got one that did have 1488 in it.