satoshi is either dead or in prison

[crunchynut]

or both. as there is no big player in the bitcoin world that didn't turn out to be a criminal, it's more likely that he's still alive. what do you think was satoshi's crime he went to prison for?

[Shallow]

Neither. He's still around   

[hilariousandco]

or both. as there is no big player in the bitcoin world that didn't turn out to be a criminal, it's more likely that he's still alive. what do you think was satoshi's crime he went to prison for?

What is the point in this baseless speculation? So let me get this straight: he's either dead, in prison, but then you say or still alive? And there are plenty of people involved in Bitcoin who aren't criminals. It's only a tiny minority that are but obviously they get the press hits. There's no crimes commuted by Satoshi just for creating Bitcoin unless he did something else or did some money laundering etc.

[cuddaloreappu]

its nice that  you speculate..

why dont you try speculating here

http://www.reddit.com/r/Satoshistories/

[Beliathon]

Who cares? He/she/they are immortalized by their creation of crypto. Stop making shitty threads.

[SomethingElse]

I am guessing Satoshi is either still working on Bitcoin behind the scenes, or is working on the next big project.  A great painter just doesn't pain one painting and quite.  A good philosopher just doesn't write one philosophy book and quite.  Satoshi is more than a painter and a philosopher combined. 

[yatsey87]

I dont think he's either. He's probably just retired from bitcoin and is watching his baby from afar. Maybe from a beach somewhere  . I often wonder if he had other stashes of coins that we don't know about. I'm sure he must have.

[eeeeek]

Yes they do... it's called a one day fly ... just look at the guy who invented the floppydisk... He only came up with weird stuff and fails after that.

[Beliathon]

A great painter just doesn't pain one painting and quite.

Platitude. Give me an argument with substance.

[darlidada]

Have you guys heard about Cryptonote, bytecoin and monero ? Satoshi and his team are still around

just read the white paper at :

www.cryptonote.org

[Ron~Popeil]

Everyone knows Satoshi is living in a trailer park in Mobile Alabama with Elvis and JFK. 

[Mr Tea]

I think it's possible that he's dead, but I see no evidence for it. Like he said, I think he just moved on to other things.

[cypherdoc]

Satoshi:  "I am not Dorian".

[Jesu]

The only thing that makes me wonder if hes dead is the fact that he hasnt spent any of his coins. I just cant understand that.

[yatsey87]

The only thing that makes me wonder if hes dead is the fact that he hasnt spent any of his coins. I just cant understand that.

I must admit that does make me wonder too. This community would go into meltdown if those coins ever moved. Can you imagine how many threads there would be and the excitement in trying to follow them?

[acs267]

What about this: Everybody should stop making poor assumptions of what happened to Satoshi Nakamoto. The person obviously doesn't want to be found, they want to remain anonymous like those daily .0001BTC transactions. Let them remain anonymous. It's a huge reason why some people use Bitcoin - anonymity. So let the creator keep his, too.

[juju]

The only thing that makes me wonder if hes dead is the fact that he hasnt spent any of his coins. I just cant understand that.

I must admit that does make me wonder too. This community would go into meltdown if those coins ever moved. Can you imagine how many threads there would be and the excitement in trying to follow them?

I think its likely that someone smart enough to postulate something as intricate as Bitcoin will not have monetary issues. Satoshi is holding to teach us the true value of a Bitcoin. I find it unlikely that whoever created this technology, and perhaps knows it better than anyone, did not back up the private key for his address. It is very probable that Satoshi has several wallets, I mean he created the currency, he had to run the testnet and main-net on at-least two machines for the Blockchain to start, to think he has a single wallet would be silly. I bet if anything he is just digging into the wallets with smaller amounts of coins first, couple blocks of coins here or there.

[yatsey87]

The only thing that makes me wonder if hes dead is the fact that he hasnt spent any of his coins. I just cant understand that.

I must admit that does make me wonder too. This community would go into meltdown if those coins ever moved. Can you imagine how many threads there would be and the excitement in trying to follow them?

I think its likely that someone smart enough to postulate something as intricate as Bitcoin will not have monetary issues. Satoshi is holding to teach us the true value of a Bitcoin. I find it unlikely that whoever created this technology, and perhaps knows it better than anyone, did not back up the private key for his address. It is very probable that Satoshi has several wallets, I mean he created the currency, he had to run the testnet and main-net on at-least two machines for the Blockchain to start, to think he has a single wallet would be silly. I bet if anything he is just digging into the wallets with smaller amounts of coins first, couple blocks of coins here or there.

You never know. You could be a genius but poor or not well paid, but he most certainly doesn't have momentary issues now, but this is a hell of a lot of money just sitting around unused. He could also use the money for good or use it to spread bitcoin even further.

[blatchcorn]

The only thing that makes me wonder if hes dead is the fact that he hasnt spent any of his coins. I just cant understand that.

I must admit that does make me wonder too. This community would go into meltdown if those coins ever moved. Can you imagine how many threads there would be and the excitement in trying to follow them?

I think its likely that someone smart enough to postulate something as intricate as Bitcoin will not have monetary issues. Satoshi is holding to teach us the true value of a Bitcoin. I find it unlikely that whoever created this technology, and perhaps knows it better than anyone, did not back up the private key for his address. It is very probable that Satoshi has several wallets, I mean he created the currency, he had to run the testnet and main-net on at-least two machines for the Blockchain to start, to think he has a single wallet would be silly. I bet if anything he is just digging into the wallets with smaller amounts of coins first, couple blocks of coins here or there.

You never know. You could be a genius but poor or not well paid, but he most certainly doesn't have momentary issues now, but this is a hell of a lot of money just sitting around unused. He could also use the money for good or use it to spread bitcoin even further.

This makes me think: satoshi must have at least one other wallet for when he uses/trades/experiments with bitcoin.  Who volunteers to go find it?

[Ron~Popeil]

The man wants to be left alone. Why don't we simply respect his wishes and leave him alone?