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Re:Another court case fails to unlock the mystery of Bitcoin... by glitchc on Sunday August 07, 2022 @09:12AM (#32376225)
It’s unlikely to be Szabo. He has already publicly denied it numerous times.
Re:Another court case fails to unlock the mystery of Bitcoin... by ratg13 on Sunday August 07, 2022 @12:38PM (#32377748)
If you win the lottery, the smartest thing you can do is to not tell anyone.

If you toiled relentlessly to hid your identity and have done an extremely good job of it, why would you throw all of it away and say "okay, you got me"

so you can watch yourself and your family be relentlessly attacked for the rest of your life? so you can have your life threatened on a regular basis? so you can watch your greatest creation, something that was meant to be decentralized, come back to being something centralized under you?

the only people that would think this is a good idea are people who are short-sighted or narcissists.

Re:Another court case fails to unlock the mystery of Bitcoin... by glitchc on Sunday August 07, 2022 @01:09PM (#32377938)
It’s not the confession of lottery that gives people away, but rather the use of funds. It’s one thing to not advertise and quite another to not touch your winnings at all. I’m sure there’s a clear dollar figure for most people beyond which provacy is worth selling.

Here we are talking about billions of dollars. To be worth billions and not use a penny of it to make your life better, on the basis of protecting privacy, that’s a supreme exertion of willpower on a daily basis, and we’re talking over years. Bears repeating that it’s years since a transaction was made against those wallets. One has to be a saint to not succumb once over the years, and while certainly possible, it’s the least likely outcome. Rather the lack of movement suggests that either Nakamoto is dead or Nakamoto is an org, presumably an org that doesn’t care about billions (I won’t name names but there are only a handful of orgs that possess crypto expertise and would not care about billions).

Re:Another court case fails to unlock the mystery of Bitcoin... by aflag on Sunday August 07, 2022 @05:59PM (#32380313)
How much was taken from it? Maybe it was enough for him not to need to take any more? And how do you know Satoshi's wallet? Also, if it's an organisation, it doesn't mean that it's not Szabo.
Re:Another court case fails to unlock the mystery of Bitcoin... by hresvelgr on Sunday August 07, 2022 @09:43AM (#32376409)
It's not in their interest to confirm if they are indeed Satoshi. Pretty sure their wallet is worth over a billion USD, and irrespective of whether they have access to it anymore, someone will probably want to try and extract that from them forcibly.
Re:Another court case fails to unlock the mystery of Bitcoin... by aflag on Sunday August 07, 2022 @09:26AM (#32376302)
That's exactly what the real Satoshi Nakamoto would say!