First of all, bitcoin is open source code. Satoshi could prove himself to be the NSA, Ben Bernanke, or Bill Cosby and it wouldn't affect my opinion of the technology one way or the other. What matters is how bitcoin works, and how it's going to evolve in the future; not what it's origin is.
This is also my reasoning. It doesn't really matter who created it - it is still a fantastic and revolutionary idea. And even if satoshi was ex or current NSA they don't exactly have stupid people working for them. I don't believe it was a NSA invention though. Don't see what purpose they could have with it. Seems like it would do more harm than good to them in my opinion. |
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- He is afraid of beeing found when he spends one satoshi
- He forgot his wallet passwords
- The harddisk with the wallets crashed
- He is dead
(Most likely in that order)
Collectively "Satoshi Nakamoto" is waiting for mass acceptance before revealing himself and starts dumping coin in market. If there is mass acceptance, dumps won't be necessary. He won't need fiat. The time to dump is now, while he is a multi-millionaire and bitcoin's future remains uncertain. Why would he dump now at this price? Though the future is uncertain I think there's a greater chance of it rising considerably than crashing, though ups and downs will likely occur. If, like you said, there is mass acceptance and he or any of us wont need fiat anymore then it makes sense to keep hold of them right now. |
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-He could have burnt his coins to avoid spending them or have lost them but do you think this would be the case or happen to a really wise man like him? I don't think he would've abandoned them completely nor do I think it would've been wise to do so, though you could make an argument against it if they ever fell into the wrong hands or were dumped at one point, but I think if he was safe and smart with them they would be fine and could still be used wisely in the future. -He is very sexy about his mysteries.
Haha. I'm going to use that when anyone ever creates a thread asking where satoshi is  . |
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Hmm... Why's that? Thefts? Are they not using any sort of escrow at the moment?
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New forum software is being developed and should be active early next year with a beta test arriving soon. And no, nobody really donates anymore.
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They have not been touched even when the price was $1200 it would have made sense if he at least cashed out some coins.
These coins are most likely not accessible for whatever reason, or perhaps Satoshi simply doesn't care about money, also possible.
He may have cashed out from addresses nobody knows about. It is nice to think that he doesn't care about money, but those coins could be used for good in the future. He could slowly dish them out to charities or invest in infrastructure for bitcoin in the developing world. |
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Yes, but it's not very convenient that way. How many people actually get tips on here? Very few. If there was a easy one or two click function to tip tiny amounts of bitcoin (one of the good features about these is sending without fees) then more people would likely do it.
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I want to create cryptocurrency, with specification :
3. 100 % Premine, 1000 Billion or more coin in circulation, and all the coins are saved in 1 address or more for future distribution. Lol. 5. No mining reward, mining is only for securing the network.
Lol again. Got to be a joke. Why would miners support the network if they're not getting paid for it? |
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What's wrong with just Cryptothrift? Most of the other auction sites have shut down now.
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This is probably a bot but lol at the options. Didn't know 'rainy' was a season. I like all seasons as they all offer something different. I like the gloominess of winter, the optimism of spring, the atmosphere and colours of autumn and the funshine and good times of summer.
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I think you are right about the farming accounts, although I checked maybe ~1.5 months ago and none but maybe 2 or 3 out of 50+ received any kind of negative trust/scam accusation, although I don't think the whole bayuo/zedicus case is helping my cause.
But that's still two or three accounts that are (potentially) linked to you. I'm sure theymos vets in users in some capacity before he asks them and if he sees that there's several alts with scam accusations against them it won't look very good (though sometimes false positives will come up so it depends on other factors too). |
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Yeah, I think it's more of a cautionary measure and theymos is just thinking ahead and trying to cover the forums back for any potential issues. It could cause legal problems if the powers that be try use some bs of needing a licence for the money transmitting etc, but I'm sure we'd be ok with a third party if reditt is and I'd like to see this feature implemented if possible.
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Yes, you have to be actively participating, but probably don't have to be as active as me for instance. If you're seen as a helpful and rational person I guess it will help though. Reporting lots of posts but not actually posting much probably isn't very good. You also might be in a tricky situation or grey area with farming and selling accounts. If you sell an account and it goes on to spam or scam and it's tied to you somehow I don't think that will look very good. And what do you mean very special reward? From a user or the admins? (though maybe you don't want to say).
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Haha. Busted. Rinse and repeat for these guys. Guess he's just tired of having his scams foiled. Must get frustrating after a while.
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Well it's probably not expected and it's up to the individual whether they do or not, but I normally have a quick check and if they're a newb patrollers - such as myself - can delete them, but if not staff can just report them as well which I normally do.
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Think he was just being sarcastic. Report a lot of posts and be a very active member of the community and theymos may ask you eventually.
Out of curiosity, how active were most staff members prior to being asked? Does he he count alt accounts? Well their levels of 'activeness' will have all been different, but being active is probably the biggest requirement (but that comes along with reporting lots of posts). If you look at the table with the most reports some of the pre-existing staff hadn't reported that many (MiningBuddy only had 108 in July for example). And by taking alt accounts into consideration do you mean the total of reports over them all? |
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It's certainly a possibility but there are many other scenarios. The simple answer is nobody other than satoshi will ever know unless they suddenly move sometime.
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Surely having a third party one implemented wouldn't cause any trouble? Does reddit or any site who has a PayPal donate button have this concern?
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No mods do not scroll through your posts looking for these kinds of things. They will generally respond to reports made by users of the forum who are reporting these kinds of spam posts.
They might once a person has been reported for posting +1s or smilies etc. It's a good idea to check anyway to see if their post history is littered with them. |
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