What if Satoshi is dead at this moment?

[gabriella]

while i would never wish ill thoughts onto him, the fact is people get hit by a bus everyday.

people get heart attacks every day, people travel to other countries and catch a bad flu and pass away in short notice, people get poisoned by jealous husbands for screwing their wives, and so on and so forth.

perhaps he is being held hostage for non-bitcoin-related reasons, perhaps he is in a federal PMITA prison serving life sentence for some non-bitcoin-related charges.

that means we will never get to know him.

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[7Priest7]

BTC was released in a anonymous type of way where we would never know him anyhow.

The grim reaper comes for us all.
It is the unavoidable fate of all living things.

[hostmaster]

It's riskfull business to own billion dollars and stay alive. You need small army to protect you from beggers... He is safer as long as unknown...

[remotemass]

He is alive. And he does not play dice.

[Zooey]

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

[silverfuture]

What are you talking about? The GREAT SATOSHI will come down from the mount with tablets of crypto hash... spreading joy to all and rules of the algorithm to maintain his blissful eternity. Satoshi cannot die and is immortalized in the blockchain to be reborn every Dec 25 as the light and the love of the world. The eternal son, satoshi.

[1bitbybit]

Satoshi isn't dead. It's only a flesh wound.   

[buzybit]

Look you do not need to know satoshi.
He initiated cryptocurrencies
he transplanted his thoughts and knowledge to other people
he very probably got rich
and he retired! - or seeking the next big thing!

you do not really need to know
just keep on evolving and spreading bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies

[Lauda]

Wouldn't make any difference.

[btcmonster]

nothing would happen if he was dead he hasent been involved for so kong now

[FanEagle]

Satoshi became an ideal, more or like it was/is Che Guevara.
So, doesn't matter if it's alive or not, it will always be in our hearts.

[hilariousandco]

that means we will never get to know him.

Maybe it's best nobody does. And maybe it's best most of his coins remain unspent.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

Bingo!!! I knew it! I simply knew it! Thanks for the clue, bud.



Notice the silver hammer? Wait for it... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=11425 ... and he's last name was...wait for it...Edison.

P. C. Thirty-one = PC and 21,000,000 bitcoins.

Want more proof that I'm not on the right track?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-BsL9EWVo

[Frost000]

In all honesty, does it really matter? I've always kind of thought that Satoshi was more like a group of people than just one individual anyways.

[hilariousandco]

In all honesty, does it really matter? I've always kind of thought that Satoshi was more like a group of people than just one individual anyways.

Is it possible that Satoshi isn't actually a person or a group of people, but in fact a group of

[BlueNote]

Satoshi isn't dead. He just went home.

[pikeadz]

while i would never wish ill thoughts onto him, the fact is people get hit by a bus everyday.

people get heart attacks every day, people travel to other countries and catch a bad flu and pass away in short notice, people get poisoned by jealous husbands for screwing their wives, and so on and so forth.

perhaps he is being held hostage for non-bitcoin-related reasons, perhaps he is in a federal PMITA prison serving life sentence for some non-bitcoin-related charges.

that means we will never get to know him.

It really doesn't matter.  People die all the time, and the current devs have proved themselves competent enough to continue his vision.

[johnyj]

He has returned to his galaxy

[BitcoinBarrel]

Satoshi very well could be dead. It's definitely a possibility. No one has heard from the guy in years and his coins haven't been touched.

[t1000]

Did he sign off when he was last heard of?

[empoweoqwj]

Nobody even knows if this person exists. So hard to know if he (or they) are alive or dead.

[SuperZeus]

Did he sign off when he was last heard of?

He mentions two impending menaces in his last two posts.  An attack by DoS, and the coming of the Swarm.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=showPosts;start=0

[niothor]

We should be more concern if he's not.
At least if he's dead he can't come back with a nsa badge to laugh his ass out at our faces

[hilariousandco]

He has returned to his galaxy

We should be more concern if he's not.
At least if he's dead he can't come back with a nsa badge to laugh his ass out at our faces

I reckon it's best those coins stay stationary. If they do ever get moved I hope they're drip fed out and not dumped all at once. Depends on the motivations of the individual in charge of them.

[KeyserSozeMC]

Satoshi Nakamoto is a code name for the bitcoin project.
It's not a person.

[empoweoqwj]

I love the "at the moment" part of the title .... like he's dead now, but he'll be returning in 2020 to collect his earnings

[hilariousandco]

Satoshi Nakamoto is a code name for the bitcoin project.
It's not a person.

Any proof of this? Whilst it is of course possible, I think it'd be even more improbable to remain anonymous if there was a group of people, especially in charge of around a billion dollars worth of coins.

[t1000]

Did he sign off when he was last heard of?

He mentions of two impending menaces in his last two posts.  An attack by DoS, and the coming of the Swarm.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=showPosts;start=0

From his last post, it doesn't sound like he was anticipating going away. He was just releasing 0.3.19 and he said there was more work to do.

[bryant.coleman]

Satoshi Nakamoto is a code name for the bitcoin project.
It's not a person.

That's what I have been saying for the past many months. And the project was run by a large number of people. It wasn't dependent on a single individual.

[empoweoqwj]

Did he sign off when he was last heard of?

He mentions of two impending menaces in his last two posts.  An attack by DoS, and the coming of the Swarm.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=showPosts;start=0

From his last post, it doesn't sound like he was anticipating going away. He was just releasing 0.3.19 and he said there was more work to do.

How do you know that was him? Just curious?

[hilariousandco]

Satoshi Nakamoto is a code name for the bitcoin project.
It's not a person.

That's what I have been saying for the past many months. And the project was run by a large number of people. It wasn't dependent on a single individual.

What's the reasoning or evidence for this?

[t1000]

Did he sign off when he was last heard of?

He mentions of two impending menaces in his last two posts.  An attack by DoS, and the coming of the Swarm.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=showPosts;start=0

From his last post, it doesn't sound like he was anticipating going away. He was just releasing 0.3.19 and he said there was more work to do.

How do you know that was him? Just curious?

His P2P Foundation profile.
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/SatoshiNakamoto

His original bitcoin announcement:
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-source

[empoweoqwj]

I am hoping (in  vain) people's new year's resolution is to stop talking about Satoshi 

[t1000]

How could we resist?!

[empoweoqwj]

How could we resist?!

Now he's much more interesting, and not really dead, just faking it for the DEA + FEDs

[ohiofarmer]

What if Satoshi is Janet Yellen? I've heard she has some Japanese characters tattooed on the small of her back. Unfortunately, all photos of her in a bikini seem to have been deleted from the internet... I believe it's a cover-up.

[niothor]

What if Satoshi is Janet Yellen? I've heard she has some Japanese characters tattooed on the small of her back. Unfortunately, all photos of her in a bikini seem to have been deleted from the internet... I believe it's a cover-up.

So , by your post your express your desire for some nude "chick" photos , am I right?

[empoweoqwj]

What if Satoshi is Janet Yellen? I've heard she has some Japanese characters tattooed on the small of her back. Unfortunately, all photos of her in a bikini seem to have been deleted from the internet... I believe it's a cover-up.

So , by your post your express your desire for some nude "chick" photos , am I right?

Unfortunately this is where these Satoshi threads end up ..... they should be killed at birth. Save us all the pain.

[bryant.coleman]

At least if he's dead he can't come back with a nsa badge to laugh his ass out at our faces

Even if he defects to the NSA now, he won't be able to do anything now. The Bitcoin has grown too big... and no one including Satoshi can terminate it now.

[Kungfucheez]

You're all wrong

Satoshi is just the Ghost in the Machine...

[zSprawl]

He's better off not known, else everyone will try to tax him for those bitcoins! :p

[iluvpie60]

Satoshi became an ideal, more or like it was/is Che Guevara.
So, doesn't matter if it's alive or not, it will always be in our hearts.

Most of what people think Che stands for, is actually the opposite. Everytime I see someone post about "Che" I kind of die inside a little because I know they are extremely confused.


"

The cult of Ernesto Che Guevara is an episode in the moral callousness of our time. Che was a totalitarian. He achieved nothing but disaster. Many of the early leaders of the Cuban Revolution favored a democratic or democratic-socialist direction for the new Cuba. But Che was a mainstay of the hardline pro-Soviet faction, and his faction won. Che presided over the Cuban Revolution's first firing squads. He founded Cuba's "labor camp" system—the system that was eventually employed to incarcerate gays, dissidents, and AIDS victims. To get himself killed, and to get a lot of other people killed, was central to Che's imagination. In the famous essay in which he issued his ringing call for "two, three, many Vietnams," he also spoke about martyrdom and managed to compose a number of chilling phrases: "Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is what our soldiers must become …"— and so on. He was killed in Bolivia in 1967, leading a guerrilla movement that had failed to enlist a single Bolivian peasant. And yet he succeeded in inspiring tens of thousands of middle class Latin-Americans to exit the universities and organize guerrilla insurgencies of their own. And these insurgencies likewise accomplished nothing, except to bring about the death of hundreds of thousands, and to set back the cause of Latin-American democracy—a tragedy on the hugest scale.

The present-day cult of Che—the T-shirts, the bars, the posters—has succeeded in obscuring this dreadful reality. And Walter Salles' movie The Motorcycle Diaries will now take its place at the heart of this cult. It has already received a standing ovation at Robert Redford's Sundance film festival (Redford is the executive producer of The Motorcycle Diaries) and glowing admiration in the press. Che was an enemy of freedom, and yet he has been erected into a symbol of freedom. He helped establish an unjust social system in Cuba and has been erected into a symbol of social justice. He stood for the ancient rigidities of Latin-American thought, in a Marxist-Leninist version, and he has been celebrated as a free-thinker and a rebel. And thus it is in Salles' Motorcycle Diaries.
"

I kind of hope you know this about him and you were being sarcastic when you said Che will be in our hearts... 99.999% likely you don't and you will have to just end your life for being so stupid.

[empoweoqwj]

"99.999% likely you don't and you will have to just end your life for being so stupid."

You sound like a jolly kind of dude But thanks for the education on Che, or rather, your viewpoint on him.