Andrew "weev" Auernheimer took to Twitter on Tuesday demanding that federal authorities pay him 28,296 bitcoins to make "amends" for serving prison time for a hacking conviction that was overturned last month.

"It is time, now that the fraud and violence committed against me has been exposed by the appeals process, to begin making amends to me," he wrote in a message linked from his Twitter handle @rabite.

The Arkansas man, whose diatribe mentioned Waco, Ruby Ridge, and even Timothy McVeigh, said the government owed him, according to "my current market-determined hourly rate," 1 bitcoin a day following his 2011 arrest to his April 11 release from a Pennsylvania prison.

I was taken from my childhood home at gunpoint on January 18th, 2011, and I was not allowed to freely exercise my liberties as a citizen until April 11th, 2014. That's 1179 days that you used my time that I am now billing you for (I gave you a discount by not including the last day). I am owed 28,296 Bitcoins. I do not accept United States dollars, as it is the preferred currency of criminal organizations such as the FBI, DOJ, ATF, and Federal Reserve and I do not assist criminal racketeering enterprises.

Auernheimer was in prison, sometimes in solitary confinement, for obtaining and disclosing the personal data of about 140,000 iPad owners from a publicly available AT&T website. His case was seen as a test of how far the authorities could go under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the same law that federal prosecutors were invoking against Aaron Swartz.

But in the end, the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals didn't squarely address the controversial fraud law and instead said Auernheimer was tried in the wrong federal court, and he was released from prison.

Auernheimer's verbal attack certainly won't win him friends with federal authorities, who wrote recently in court papers that they were mulling retrying him in a different venue than the original New Jersey federal court. Arkansas is the likely place. That's where the appeals court said Auernheimer allegedly performed the misdeeds the government claims were illegal.

His attorney, Tor Ekeland, said in an e-mail that a retrial would amount to "double jeopardy." He said the Justice Department "disagrees" with his assessment.