There is nothing in it to make a scam more difficult other than making business more difficult generally, it merely assures greater magnitude of any scams generated in NY.
Scammers are not so concerned.  Legitimate business is what will receive the compliance hardship.
The primary effect will be for existing Bitcoin business to no longer serve folks in New York.

It may generally be treated as humor when philosophers use the phrase "in reality" to describe a philosophy.
Moving on...
We've had a strong measure of BTC price stability for the last two weeks.  Consolidation.

Oh Noes!  The block chain takes so many gigabytes now that it costs almost US$10 to store it on a thumb drive smaller than most the keys on your keychain.

Unfeasible!

They are living in the 20th century, or earlier methinks.

Perhaps the account was for sale ('on the darknet' as mentioned by the second, current hacker), The email could have been from the first hacker that sent the 'not Dorian' message, and subsequently access to the account bought by this new guy, who wants to make back his 25 BTC so he doesn't take a loss on the purchase of the account.

Keep in mind that he won't say how he hacked it but brags about everything else, quite possibly because he simply didn't.

Monero is quite a bit more than merely a hedge though.
It holds a separate non-trivial innovation track that is not developed in Bitcoin.
 

This is not accurate.  There are specific circumstances where ID must be provided or it entitles them to take some specific actions.
Authorities are always entitled to ask, but then so are you.

Mutation is not necessary to weaponize the virus, aerosolizing it would create the threat of airborne distribution.
Mix an ebola patient, a drone and a single insane person and we have some serious problems.

Look to the volume...

This presumes continued exponential rises in BTC.  Those may be happening in XMR instead from here forward.

XMR market cap is 1/1000 of BTC
XMR has a head start on doing things that BTC doesn't do.

If you think a BTC whale needs to finance its BTC purchases by selling XMR, think again.

It was not from Satoshi.
It was from a different 'hacker'.

Not many perhaps by percentage, but a lot more people than you are thinking about.  It was not rare.

If we take any lesson from all the other times, the result would be that Bitcoin would become personified and every foible and human flaw would be deconstructed.  
Each of these would be used to impute nefarious motivation and failings would be magnified.  The narrative would become the human interest story, the story of the chase, the pursuit, the capture, and all the merits of Bitcoin the work, would be brushed aside.

With the entire globe blanketed by fiat pumpty dumpter central banks, there aren't really safe places for him to stand.  Choosing anonymity was both very wise and supremely generous, it does more for Bitcoin than for Satoshi.

Interesting question.
Does this military produce more revenue or more cost for the USD?

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I bought the white barrel in Moscow.  It has the Bitcoin logo
All those I have bought so far have it.

QFT

Having another LOL at that kids desktop.  The mixture of AIM and Cain is so telling...

Very very doubtful.  More likely having a chuckle and a cup of tea.  No one is close to the real Satoshi, and there aren't any leads here to be had.

-1000
By leaving them dormant and never spent, they are a donation to EVERYONE that uses bitcoin.
Satoshi understands supply, demand, and decentralisation better than thou.

LOL it takes zero activity to receive an email.
When burning an ID, you delete all the sent and received email, and let the account sit there, or delete it (but then someone can re-register it immediately)

The email address still exists, and can receive email from all the spammers, journos, and supporters.  These are never seen, never opened.  You just walk away after severing all the ties. 

More plausible:  He thought we would be smarter by now than the community apparently manifests as being. 
All this hullabaloo to advertise the scammer?  Let it die.

Not a bad idea.  Buy up before this "hacker" does (using the term loosely).  Any cheap buys you get deprive him of some.  The sheeple and gullible will sell into this.

No, its rather the opposite.