It adds to the allure of bitcoin... the ever enigmatic Satoshi.
We need legends and myths for our renegade cyberspace currency.

Ok lets say Satoshi comes out now and is known

People following him about like the Paparazzi asking questions..trying to get dirt from friends and neighbors...asking him pointed questions 'have you always been anti-government' stuff like that...his life would be hell...say he did work in crypto for say NSA could go to jail or some such perhaps on the bitcoin tech or his training that led him to that..his corp job if such would can his ass.......his family could and himself be in danger kidnap for bitcoin...snatch his kid ...whisper xfer 1 million in btc to my phone here in front of you...at the local deli....then kid is out of the car on the street whole thing took like 9 min...easy money

Gov't agencies looking at your past ...IRS for unreported income from past mining at 99c a BTC and your spending of such previously unknown address..you owe capital gains in USA according to 2013 virtual currency guidelines to tax payers.for the diff between what you mined it at 99c vs the say 249 you bought a T.V. for with it (or btc to usd xfer  to that cash)...required subpoenas from your state senate your state house the us senate the us house .....on either what kind of fiend you are ..did you make bitcoin as some of your posts state to destabilize the USA ..in some countries ...death penalty for such stuff perhaps.......and heaven help you if you ever even talked to a bitcoin 1st adopter in chat back in 2009 who even went on silk road 1x ......or actually at one time had a pleasant email with mark k.of mt.gox back in the day

people begging for btc for dying kids (if legit) as a scam if not..you'd need body guards....you'd be mobbed everywhere you went....some countries would assume you were a CIA plant...or other treason from this virtual currency invention

your life would be never your own ever again

look what happened to the guy in Time Magazine with him at one time (since debunked) being Satoshi..he worked for the gov't for a time they started an investigation almost right away on the Time article I think I read for any connections that way.....heaven help you if you got the idea from btc working for gov't or working for a corp even indirectly ..get a lot of lawyers.

so it would be very very bad in this me me me world....shows to me the guy is pretty 'sane' about keeping his identity secret and avoided this circus

and of course the 'john lennon' type assassin that would just want to kill the inventor of bitcoin for the fame of it

sheesh it would be awful imho

 

I hope they never catch-up with him until the IRS or whatever tax authority he lives under, if any, starts accepting BTC.

Can you imagine a tax bill of 50m BTC, paid in fiat? That would kill Bitcoin if he had to cash out half of his coins.

Actually: cheap coins. lol. 

For those asking why satoshi remained anon, probably for the same reason we all are. My username is relevant to why its sometimes good to remain hidden because you don't know who's watching or after you.

I wish he wasn't anonymous forever but on the other hand if such is his choice I respect it.