I apologize. I didn't realize everyone here was made of egg shells.

Come on dude... the 90s... it was an obvious joke. I suppose I should have said "Stop trying to run Core on an Atari" instead...

OP has a history of "joke" threads, I figured he could handle it back in his direction.

Go out and purchase a computer that wasn't built in the 90s.

There is no question, at least in my mind, that cryptocurrency presents the ultimate threat to bankers. The idea of a currency that can be transmitted instantly anywhere in the world for free and cannot be manipulated terrifies them, because it is obvious far superior to their own offerings, which divert money from legitimate producers and workers and funnels it into their own pockets.

Their only problem: how to make it illegal? Not a trivial problem.

Let's say some guy in Qatar transmits 100 bitcoins to some other guy in Algeria. How do you make that illegal? It's not even in your country. You going to tell the government of Qatar "Block those bitcoin packets, they are illegal." I mean, heck, you can't even block child porn packets in your own country and now you are going to tell Qatar to start blocking bitcoin packets. Seems difficult.

Seems more plausible to demonize the local person even if they act abroad, kind of like porn tourism. If you transmit bitcoins or run a client, its a crime, but we will only go after US citizens. Seems to be the general strategy Russia is taking. The main problem would seem to be justifying it. Of course, in Russia you don't need to justify anything since it's a dictatorship, but in the United States there are courts and lawmakers and stuff like that which get in the way. You can't just have some pimp in the Treasury department make up a law that instantly turns a million citizens into criminals.

Then, of course, there is the intelligence factor. To get a law passed you need to convince Joe Ohio, the average person, that cryptocurrency is evil, kind of like gambling or drinking to excess. Now, this is not so easy as it might seem. In places like Russia and Bangladesh it's easy, because Russians and Bengalis are morons, but in the United States, it's a tougher sell. Gambling is obviously evil, but internet currency, how is that evil? To Joe Ohio seems sort of like a nerd credit card and credit cards aren't evil, are they? What's the problem?

The problem is money laundering, Joe. Drug dealers are using bitcoins to launder their ill-gotten profits so you need to make bitcoins illegal, got that? Hmm, ok, got to stop the drug dealers. Anyone using bitcoin is a criminal because they are helping drug dealers. Got it, I'll call my congressman.

Actually I've read that the first trillion dollar company may be a bitcoin related company

Satoshi is like the mist, vapor, intelligence reports say the name is FAKE

So if he does have 1M coins 1K btc makes he only a billionaire

$100K btc could have to occur to make him a trillionaire IF he really owns 1M bitcoin

Now if 1M btc occurs he would be the first 10 digit trillionaire IF he really owns 1M bitcoin

Apple is or is one of the top valued companies in the world, only 600Bil in cap value.

Now a company that acquires a large percentage of btc or develops must use tech for btc or a legit btc exchange or bank, may become a trillion buck asset in the article I read.

I'm sure the NSA knows who he is and from what I've heard they think he's a composite of multiple people.

Through reading the core code.

So the original 'people' creating satoshi all had their original ip's traced down from years ago and the spooks know who the movers are

That's my OPinion

Now you can all say Satoshi is real, he exists etc.

Maybe one person wrote the white paper on bitcoin, but the core had several personalities on it from what I've heard.

So let's say it was 4 people, 250K of the 1M stash each then

But if one person, ok they say 'he' or it may be a she or whatever, owns 1M btc

If he or she steps out into the light, and says here's my public keys then that's how you know what the person owns IMO

Now if you all have some old post here showing how he acquired 1M btc so fast, fine, if no miners maybe he did, at what point did mining become hard enough not to produce many coins.

So a graph showing when coins were minted can be used to figure out # of miners and then it may be possible to figure out what miners got the easy early btc

For example, if I mislead someone into sending me a large amount of bitcoins (in the United States) would that be illegal?

If I did not force them to do anything, but they sent them anticipating me to send a product in return, but I never send it.

Would this be considered illegal considering no one would know whether the bitcoin address that received the bitcoins was my address?