I hope that we can sue him that he is the false Satoshi
If CSW is successful in making courts believe that he is Satoshi, he will owe billions in taxes. In CSW's own words:
Bitcoin was created in 2009 with all 21 million bitcoin issued. The system was constructed so that nodes (aka miners — note that only miners are nodes) are paid to validate transactions. At no point do they own the database.
Nodes and miners are thus subcontracting in accordance with the initially constructed set of rules that I created. That is, they are following a set of rules and acting as my agents.
One might argue that since he is claiming rights to bitcoin via lawsuits, like the white paper and software, that
every time a miner is paid out, CSW has said that he, personally, is responsible for those payments.
So, CSW owes tax on the monetary value of ~6 BTC every ten minutes
in the countries that miners are mining or selling in, according to his alleged claims, because
that's what he claims he is paying them to secure the network.
He does not get compensation though, as those values have been paid to those miners,
who are now the owners of those bitcoins.
It wouldn't change that the miners owe tax too, I doubt, but perhaps they can pass off their tax to CSW.
It's a funny thing -- to only owe tax!?
This will be taxed at a higher rate than capital gains because he is claiming it as a business. And because he is now claiming all nodes as his agents, he is now liable for every single crime that has occurred under the system that he claims to have developed. Business law creates all sorts of liability. He would have a fiduciary and legal responsibility, and abandoning the system (if it were true) would not absolve him perhaps. It won't be just the Australian Tax authorities for his previous endeavours that will be after him if he successfully defends a case. (Nevermind that 21 million weren't issues then. And his definition of nodes disagrees with the developed software.. Also, ownership of a database does not automatically give ownership of the values within that database. A person never loses the right to their birthdate just because its in a random database somewhere, for example.)
