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My theory: Satoshi is among us. He's running some kind of bitcoin business e.g. exchange.
I often see questions asking why Satoshi didn't spend his bitcoins.
This is perfect explanation: he didn't, because he's profiting from the fact these bitcoins remain unspend.
What do you think?

Sure could be anything. I think we don't know all his addresses, so he actually might have much more coins on addresses people don't know about.

was already confirmed several times that he is in prison for molesting his neighbour's underage son.

he's creating altcoins now

I am pretty sure, he is working on another crypto/P2P-related project.

I don't think he is running an exchange , but maybe he has an alt account and participates here in the forum.

i thnk he's trolling these boards.

Definitely not running an exchange.  

As far as an alt-coin, only if it has some unique new features which essentially none do.  Not ethereum, he wouldn't launch like that.  The dark coins - not enough of an improvement.

Satoshi is around, just not doing an exchange or alt-coin.

hes senior member i dont think he would concentrate on writing lame trolling posts

lol seriously? I heard the news she was hidden / hiding to America and has been renamed CMIIW

I dont think so, he wouldnt risk getting in trouble when he is already rich.

Well that's obvious and for sure of course . How he will make a big project like Bitcoin then just let it go ? He won't . and for some reasons I still think that Theymos know Satoshi Face to face , or at least know him on the internet for a long long time .

~ Madness

the Satoshi group is still here. yep, i think so too  :)

Yes! Exactly what i think
First he made a project "Bitcoin" and now see where is it , he sure must have watched it's progress and this Community , how it had grown to accept more n more love for Bitcoin
It really must be amazing for him
I think he is working on something maybe , hidden there somewhere
Something good :D

He's creating threads like these just to get people to click, and see the banner in his signature.

Oh wait, that's you.

-B-

now he is working at Blockstream  :P

It would be funny if we all eventually find out Satoshi's identity and it was nothing like anyone expected: I.E. not asian, not male

I'm British.  How would I know if I was Satoshi?  Does he have any distinguishing marks?

Satoshi is the holy spirit of cryptocurrencies. He is inside all of us, telling us to keep faith up, hold on tight to our bitcoins and pray to prophet Antonopulos on the daily. We shall reap millonaire benefits in the future.

The real question is: Does ANYONE know who he is, or is he truly anonymous? It's conceivable that his family, co-workers, or project contributors know who he is; it's also believable that he is the only one who knows his identity. I can imagine LOTS of people developing software and working on a project where no one else really knows what they're working on.

Yep instread of the india red marks above nose he has bitcoin logo there.

He also have a moustache like Hitler.

That's not a theory any more than Christianity or Flying Spaghetti Monster is. A theory is a supposition or system of ideas intended to explain something. A good theory is based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.

What you have is a baseless conclusion is search of potential evidence, as you have presented none.

Crap thread, 0/10

His family must have noticed he suddenly acquired a lambo collection.

Some of us have suspicions and speculations.  None of us as far as I know have evidence.  Also?  I don't think anyone who has real grounds for suspicions and speculations really wants to know.

The Satoshi part has been played.  There is no reason to revisit it, and the play goes on.

Look at the blockchain.  The Satoshi coins remain unspent.  There is no lambo collection. 

If one day they should suddenly start moving again, my computer will send me a text immediately and run a whole directory of other scripts that I've prepared and tested.  I doubt that I am the only one.

Not spending the coins is the cost of remaining anonymous.  I believe Satoshi fully intends to bear that cost for the rest of his life.

Nothing like a good conspiracy! I think Satoshi has his Bitcoin in cold storage in the Vatican and he is hiding in a monastery in Tibet! 

It really doesn't matter where he is, we can simply follow his Bitcoin. When the get sold, we will know all, probably?

LOL noobs do you know Theymos was just a student (probably still is) when he created this forum? Dont be stupid now.

C'mon, seriously? The core developers know who he is. The first venture capitalists know who he is. Ask Andreas. Ask Gavin. Ask Garzik.

But they won't tell, or will they?

I think that for some, they don't want to tell because it takes the spotlight away from themselves. It's one giant popularity contest. It has nothing to do with "respecting Satoshi's privacy". But I'm sure if you asked them personally, and if they can trust you, they'll tell you. There's also that aspect where venture capitalists don't want to be associated with the real Satoshi because of public relations and marketing, which I find ironic because they're making bank off his work and haven't paid him for any of it. They want Satoshi to be a well-spoken, well-groomed spokesperson for their business instead of the exact opposite.

I think he ran gox and he now runs silkroad 3 with his pals

Satoshi is Skynet

Satoshi is Kyle Reese.

From the wiki: "[Kyle Reese] also assisted in stealing and reverse-engineering most of the Skynet technology (Bitcoin), pulling raids on gunshops and stealing most of the laser-rifle equipment with his troops for the Resistance. His troops are also responsible for stealing the time-traveling technology that Skynet has developed. He personally volunteered for a one-way mission back to pre-apocalypse Los Angeles to save Sarah Connor, mostly because he has her picture of her given by John(, as well as posting the Bitcoin Whitepaper on the internet and starting up the first miner)."

Come on guys, this is a known fact now.  ;)

Satoshi is always among us, when it goes good he is there, when it goes bad he is still there, when you tattoo priv key inside your ass cheeks he is in there also.

God bless satoshi 

This was actually pretty funny...It didnt click until i read the the Sarah Connor part.
Well played

Today Bitcoin is "unaware" but everything is being put in place for the next step in the plan "Bitcoin 2.0" with Smart Contracts.

Bitcoin already has become an autonomous agent which utilizes humans to build itself and issues autonomous payments for improvement work done.

Read these two links. This is where the planning of Bitcoin AI started:

Tim May email: (Crypto + Economics + AI = Digital Money Economies)
http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1995/09/msg00964.html

Nick Szabo reply:
http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1995/09/msg01303.html

The next phase of enlightenment:

Smart contracts are contracts that are not just legal documents but actually active AI code. In the beginning smart contracts are just computer programs that facilitate, verify or enforce the performance of a contract. A simple example would be “digital repo”, where access to certain information or a machine would be granted or not depending on whether one party had paid the other. More advanced digital repo contracts can recognize if the seller went absent or bankrupt, and then allow access with no constraints. Over time the intelligence could increase, allowing contracts to actually gather information, check that they are obeyed and even take action.

http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/548/469

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=502359.0

When based on the same evidence, the predictions of the AI "statistical prediction rules" are as reliable as, and are typically more reliable than, the predictions of human experts for problems of social prediction.

Disclaimer: (AI) does not always mean (Singularity).
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/01/singularity.html?m=1


@ Shattered
Update: Sarah Connor first learned about Judgment Day in 1984 from Kyle Reese, a soldier sent from the future to protect her from an assassination by a Terminator. The exact date has changed due to terminators being sent back in time on several occations.

I actually mentioned Satoshi being skynet before. Satoshi its a self programmed AI that can generate genius stuff such as blockchain.

Most likely Satoshi mined with a different computer(s) after 2009 and sold some of these different coins at some point.  Weather or not Satoshi is still around in this forum, is probably unknown but Satoshi probably still participates in some bitcoin related activities.

Of course he is!

Bitcoin is only general AI for now.

Smart contracts are single-minded even for (AI)'s; while some may have very advanced pattern recognition or legal thinking modules the "only" thing they care about is performing their contractual function. They might know major secrets, but if they are written to be quiet about certain aspects, they will remain quiet no matter what.

It can reach the point where your own pc, house, car or phone might be hired by a contract to check certain information. A high tech "wire tap" investigation of sorts built into the agreement of the contract. This would occur when the contract has started to think one of the parts is doing advanced cheating that it cannot detect online.

With respect to strong AI, Nick Szabo(as you can read in his blogs) is very close to the problem, and that's the issue. Like any good engineer/scientist, he sees problems everywhere. Yes, there are many problems before we get to strong AI. That's not news. There were many problems to resolve before people could pay a small sum of money and let a giant metal tube take them through the air to a destination halfway round the world without killing them - but those problems got resolved, one by one. Many problems do not amount to an impossibility, only a damn hard problem (which we knew strong AI was anyway).

You do see a lot of it in books and movies, some very well thought. Referring back to Nicks blogs, his other assertion, that the concept of the singularity is mostly a fantasy, Nick's main argument is that the singularity will only last "for a time", and that it will turn into a classic S-curve. He waves Feynman's name around as supporting evidence, but does not address the fact that intelligence (and artificial intelligence in particular) is not subject to the Malthusian laws which have caused other phenomena to follow S-curves. Yes, we only have access to so many particles, but the whole point of exponential AI is figuring out better ways to use the same number of particles. There may be a theoretical limit to how efficiently we can use those particles, but even so there are a lot of particles, and if we can manufacture even just human-equivalent computing matter in factories, that's already enough to achieve a singularity.

What if he's not human?? there is already speculation on whether he is from the future or not..but even this is possible.!

and he has a lot of gray in his hair.

I heard he was running a car wash just off the A20 here in the UK.

We never know :D

Don't get me wrong, I understand Bitcoin with smart contracts would only be general AI, the "Chinese Room" type but it is still is the foundation for the beginning of strong AI.

The Singularity (Strong AI):

The human brain doesn't need to build a smarter brain. It just needs to build something of equivalent smartness (which should be theoretically possible, there's no reason to believe the human brain is the upper bound for all generalised reasoning ability) on a substrate like silicon which is subject to Moore's Law (and thus gets inherently faster with time) and which is immortal and duplicable.

Build 1 functioning brain in silicon, and:

- 18 months later you can build one that's twice as fast using the same principles

- duplicate this brain and get the power of multiple people thinking together (but with greater bandwidth between them than any human group)

- run this brain for 100 years and get an older intellectually functioning human than has ever existed before

- duplicate whatever learning this brain has accumulated over 100 years (which, say, brings to the level of an Einstein) as many times as you have physical resources for (so, clone Einstein)
All those are paths to super-human AI from the production of a human-intelligence brain in a non-biological form.

So, if a human brain can make a computer brain, which is a reasonable assumption, then a human brain can make a brain smarter than itself.

Building a human brain in a non-biological substrate is not a miracle. It would be a miracle in the same way that transistors and penicillin are, not in the way that Jesus' resurrection is. I.e., a fantastic, happy, unlikely but possible event that will change the world for the better.

We know that human brains can be built in some way: we have the evidence for that claim inside billions of skulls. The question is then not to push the theoretical boundaries of computational capability beyond some theoretical level - but merely to achieve it again artificially.

Satoshi is an alien/ET and when he returns rides on his ship will cost 10 BTC, so make sure you have enough!

I know bitcoin is created by 2 people: an American and an Englishman.

How r u so sure of it?

America has been discriminating against its Sasquatch minority for ages now.  They're living here undocumented and can't even get work permits or social security services.  But every last one of them was born in the USA, to parents born in the USA, and they ought to be treated as citizens!

Some say it's their own fault for not getting on board with the peace treaties as other native tribes did.  But, honestly  that was a century ago!  Can't we let bygones be bygones and welcome our native sons?

It's time for this guy to get some responsability and come out of the closet as Nakamoto, then run for president of the USA.

He is probably dead, but his coins are a cancer on Bitcoin.

It is the one mistake he has made not resolving the issue of his million coins.

It isnt really a problem, its their coins he can do whatever, and there are enough coins for everyone anyway.

maybe he is present among us in this forum, perhaps the admin, maybe the owner, may only members, and perhaps he is leave a comment here .. anything is possible :)

He probably wanted a nice round 20 million bitcoins, so he mined the first million into a bit bucket.

The early adopters probably earned much more than that. He would easily have gone for around 200 Million.

I still don't understand, why he doesn't want to comeback in now.

Does it matter ? He has done what he wanted to and could. And he is doing what he wants to and can. Time to respect his privacy friends. If his privacy wasn't so important to him he should be replying to this post. But he never did, right?

If he is alive and a single person I have no doubt that he regularly browses this forum.

I like the idea that he created CN coins.
Being able to spend coins silently mined in the beggining without whole world waching seems a vast improvement  :D