You find all of Satoshi's Private Keys in a Storage Unit or some such? Now What?

[Man of peace]

I had a dream about this once. I found all of Satoshi's Private Keys Printed out in a suitcase in a storage unit I bought in the dream.

I was a nice guy...and in the dream did see he had passed away. Thus the storage unit sale.

The dream ended and I was like WTF? How do I even use these w/o crashing the system/price etc? Then I woke up.

So comment on how you would approach finding Satoashi's entire hoard of btc private keys....could you even do anything with these most

famous of addresses? Moving them would drive the BTC world insane..if as a test move of $1 off one of them.

thoughts on what you would do with such a delightful endeavor, while you also try to remain anonymous as well.

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What a wonderful dreams, your dream is the kind of dream that everyone after dreaming wishes it to come true, because some many people pray for this kind of dream in reality and not just a dream.and you know that it's a very big opportunity to anyone who is opportune to bought a suitcase and discover such document  of such a great famous Bitcoin owner like him and if you eventually misuse it, I  don't think that person will ever become rich in his or her entire life .
but i think the best solution to this, since in the suitcase it showns that he has passed away,i will rather pretend to be one of his heirs and I will continue managing the said private key, since it's already at my position I will secure it secretly.

[Cricktor]

The reality of such a fiction is likely very different. As soon as coins attributed to Satoshi move, the world will have a very close look at it and will try to pinpoint the coin mover. Satoshi was smart and managed to remain anonymous. Other people aren't that privacy focused and will make errors that will reveal their identity.

Now you have a problem because there's evidence, see e.g. http://satoshiblocks.info/ where the fictional miner "Patoshi" is attributed to have mined ~21954 blocks (give or take, the ballpark of ~21k blocks is reasonable), multiply that by 50BTC and some say "Patoshi" and Satoshi could've been the same miner.

Personally I find the evidence quite compelling that above website presents and explains. It's worth a thorough read in my opinion.


Above balance isn't very accurate as some of the attributed blocks I used to construct the combo() descriptors watch-only wallet are false-positives. I'm not too keen to correct it because rescanning the wallet takes quite some time.

With a stash of over a million bitcoins, should you have found the private keys as you dreamed about, you definitely have a problem, because now guess how many evil criminals or governments or who else will be after you. Don't expect they'd ask politely.

I'm pretty sure there's probably no place to hide on this planet for you, if someone believes you have Satoshi's private keys.

You can prove to have the keys. You can't prove you don't have them anymore. Not sure if you'd better burn the coins to OP_RETURN. Evil subjects would kill you anyway for such a destructive action, so you're doomed anyway, unless you choose to not move any of the coins, burn the keys and forget about it. Let's hope for you nobody saw it.

If you can cope mentally with such an outcome, I don't know. I guess it will haunt you for the rest of your life. Choose your dreams wisely.

[OgNasty]

It is tough to say what would happen if someone handed you 100 billion dollars but I do know a couple of things that would happen if I were to find myself in that position.

1) There would be a new owner of the Sacramento Kings.
2) ASPCA would get the largest donation in their organization's history.

Perhaps my priorities aren't in the right spot, and I would certainly dedicate the rest of my life to trying to get that money into the hands of those in need while partying my ass off.  Honestly though, it would probably be more of a curse than a gift.  It would dominate the rest of your life and force you to be a money manager.  With that much money, I think the bad in your daily life would outweigh the good.

[coolcoinz]

It depends on whether you want to be famous or not.

If you like fame, you could make it all public.
For instance, tell the world that you have Satoshi's keys and how you got them and that you want to use them for something good, give back to the community.

You could create a support fund, paying people for blockchain research that would ensure devs get paid forever.
You might organize raffles, maybe create a faucet that allows new people to get some BTC for free?
With that kind of money you could create a real bitcoin city.

You could also become famous as the person who distributed these money to the miners. You could start sending transactions with high fees to put that money back in circulation without trading it.

You could also tell the world you have it and you're going to destroy the keys. That would give you some notoriety for free and you wouldn't have to deal with taxes or worry that wealth would make you a target. You'd forever be known as the guy who had wealth and decided to let it go.

[_BlackStar]

It's hard to explain what the most appropriate action is when something like that actually happens - I mean, humans change their minds too easily. A person's true nature will come out when faced with such a situation - it doesn't change them, of course, it just makes it clear who they really are.

There will be alarm bells ringing when Satoshi's wallet becomes active again - the market will turn into a sea of ​​fire, and panic will ensue. Even if the bitcoin in the wallet haven't moved at all, everyone panicked and sold their bitcoin that will lead to massive crashes.

[Donneski]

That would definitely be the ultimate “be careful what you wish for” scenario. All of a sudden, you're holding the most watched coins in the world, with every on-chain movement broadcast in real time.

 Even a test transaction would cause headlines so personally, if I find myself in such situation, I will probably sit on it for a while, make sure everything’s secure, and think long and hard before touching anything. Maybe even just sign a message to prove access without moving funds.

[nutildah]

Send them all to an irrecoverable location. It could be an address with an incorrect public key or I could use OP_RETURN.

This is definitely the most altruistic decision presented thus far. It would certainly void oneself of the worries you mentioned. If you ever mentioned to anyone that you (at least at one point) had access to Satoshi's private keys and were the one behind the act, then yeah your life could still turn into a media circus, and possibly be the spotlight of a criminal investigation.

Since this is pure fantasy, I'd go ahead and save 100 BTC for myself... that should be enough to cover it. Then I'd spend the rest of my life seeing how well I could actually preserve my anonymity with the aid of my newfound wealth.  I certainly wouldn't post here or on social media anywhere anymore. Could probably have a nice simple life somewhere, concentrating on real-life hobbies and enjoying being present in the moment.

[adaseb]

We still dont know when Satoshi stopped mining. He could of just switched to a different computer and mined to blend it with the other miners. From all we know he might be alive and well and mined from 2009 till mid 2010 and every once in a while he sells a block that he mined back in 2010. He is selling is mined coined in reverse because with so many miners in 2010, its easy to blend in. By selling or moving coins from the early 2009 you basically will set off signals and people might want to clue in on who is selling those coins.

So why sell $1B worth of Bitcoin and be a target when you can easily sell a few million each year and not set off any alerts about you being the creator of a currency. Even right now with Trump being president and being pro Bitcoin. It still seems like a risky thing to do and Satoshi would rather live in peace. Remember that fake Satoshi from a few years back (not Craig Wright), remember all the press bugging him. Who wants that in their life.

[Perfectbaby]

Seems you took much pizza before going to bed that why was why you had such dream. Maybe next it would be better you consume less to enable you have a free roll on the bed, and sincerely I am serious maybe you were thinking about satoshi before you went to bed that was why you had a diverse of dreams. But however, if I had such dream and it came through "_" I will leave my comment unquote.

[PepeLapiu]

I'd sell it all to Craig Wright for a 10% profit margin. So that he can finally prove to the world that he is Satoshi.

[Cricktor]

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We shall not speak out or write the name of this dispicable and disgraceful Faketoshi moron. Terrible idea in my opinion to even phantasize to involve this persona non grata in anything Bitcoin related. Let's punish this harmful subject by complete ignorance and silence.