The question I sometimes think about:
In a long enough timescale, will these coins ever move?
Discussion
I think about Satoshi way more than I should. The recent email drop from the CW case messed with my head a little. So he is human? Satoshi is an actual person? With feelings & ideas?
What type of person would or could ever do what he did & remain completely anonymous. And who could technically do that, no crumbs left behind technically other than his million coins. A true ghost. Impossible.
I don’t know. I just don’t know.
He knew enough about good money to know he needed to step away at some point for it to work.
He obviously didn’t know when that day would be when he was bootstrapping it.
Wikileaks was more than enough heat to give him the push to disappear.
It would make sense for him to step away from and nuke ALL of his OG setup and infrastructure, maybe take a year break, then come back like a “noob” and obviously still reap the benefits of a Pleb from 2012.
Just a thought. Fun to think about.
That makes sense but it also doesn’t.
Name a human being in all of history that remained completely anonymous after creating something to change the world. I’ll wait.
It goes against human nature. I know it had to be done that way but I don’t know a single human being that could do that. Unless he killed himself.
The person that invented the wheel?
Nobody knows to this day who Ug was, the benevolent caveman who changed the world.
All we have are his cave scribblings on the stone carving message boards.
Yeah I don’t know anyone in history that doesn’t take credit for inventing/discovering shit. Even when it costs them their life.
It just flies in the face of what we know to be human nature. IMO.
Also, not one person has ever come forward to say they even knew Satoshi.
Fuck CW, I don’t mean retards.
Adam Back emailed etc but never spoke to or met him. And Satoshi was so forgettable that Adam disregarded some of his emails or at least didn’t overly prioritize them. Crazy crazy shit.
If Satoshi passed them on, even to the most trusted loved one, then there's 2 people who know. Then factor in the trusted loved ones loved ones. Not everybody will have Satoshi's resolve.
So no, I don't think they'll move, it's my hope anyway. The greatest monument we've ever had.
Agreed. He didn’t tell anyone. He will die alone with this. Possibly in an unmarked grave somewhere. Possibly poor & destitute. Who knows. Those coins never ever move.
2 people can always keep a secret as long as one of them is dead.
From a Sci-Fi story perspective. I like to imagine a future of ever more secured quantum resistant wallets and Satoshi’s stash as a treasure mine that nation states seek to crack with advanced energy-intensive compute.
