I would surmise that the lives of the founders are now potentially in danger.
No.
No.
And so much more no.
Why must I/we continue to live in this world. We have the tool needed to liberate (wo)man, and we want to spend our time crucifying a child. Bitcoin media should take shame, shotty journalism making summary news on shotty journalism. We have ability to prove ourselves in terms of "I am satsohi". Stop and think. You are all to stuck on the idea of "gold", so much so you forget that "bitcoin" is really and simply an un-decrytable lock. The whole monetary aspect is simply the product of that. Satoshi didn't leave his bitcoin key's in his email, nor his identity, nor any other significant dox.
You have a person, with clearly the mentality of a child claim they knew they could have manipulated the price and/or demanded a ransom but choose instead a 500btc "donation" from the community. The kid doesn't have anything, and this is why they posted an invoice with satoshi's email. That's not evidence of anything other than they have nothing and the general community is gullible. No one needs to die over this, and the cops and fed aren't going to do anything, the beast that is bitcoin has been released, and no one stands to gain by its demise, and this means the fed cannot within its economic ability, do anything. The fed seeks $ev opportunity, because of the invisible hand, and taking out either this kid or satoshi does not feed that need.
Nor would we want it too, are we sure we are spending our energy in the correct direction? Are we still supposed to be segregating people from the general population and out-casting them with threatening perspectives?
The media prints what the peoples want....this is what YOU wanted.
Satoshi doesn't give a shit if they are outed, that is obvious, bitcoin has spread like wildfire, and every single country, government, financial institution in the world is feverishly trying to adjust and adapt. People around the world are watching as their "peoples" and 3rd world countries are beginning to be connected to the global economy. Government isn't coming after satoshi, government is made of people, it's different now, different because bitcoin is HERE. "Satoshi" whomever the name stands for, needed to hide until bitcoin become accepted by enough peoples, the size at which it could not be contained...after that...there is no reason to go after them-its done.
I will always maintain Satoshi hides not from the governments, but from the peoples, the masses that throughout the ages have gone on insane witch hunts torturing those that are different or not understood. "Satoshi" doesn't get to walk this earth freely, yet they clearly freed mankind. Why do you get to walk free? Are you not mankind?
These people that go around speaking to important bodies in a "politically" correct fashion, so as not to disturb the status quo...is this what we call rationality? The greatest "invention" of all of mankind and the inventor and the peoples behind it must be secretive and cautious about it? Why can we not collectively just adopt this technology and move with it, why we are stuck on some child like mind playing a prank on a seemingly deserving community?
It's not this child's fault Satoshi's is at risk, we must look to ourselves, always look to ourselves, who else is there but "us".
Don't be mean.
And btw, if you don't think Nick Szabo's blog was all the information needed to lead up to and create bitcoin you haven't read it. You simply haven't read szabo's writings. We know who szabo satoshi and dai are if we have read their materials. And if we have versed ourselves on their works we know whoever nick szabo is, he functions well above the jurisdiction of the "feds", he's been ahead of these intelligence agencies for a VERY long time.
We are underestimating the intelligence of Satoshi (who proposed bitcoin) and Szabo (and even dai), there are not 2 of these men. They have seen very very far into the past, and even further into the future, well beyond the new technologies like ethereum that are coming out.
It's true even the best screw up, but not like this, and even if it were so, the only reason satoshi's email would possibly be linkable to their identity is as a time lock in case they passed they knew it would be hacked. In fact satoshi knew they'd be "dox'd" eventually, its probably just a "game" to them at this point.
No more witch hunts, I want to live in a world where Satoshi feels free, and comfortable to walk the earth as they please...in full view of who they TRULY are.
Dear world please change, because Satoshi, I want to thank-you... I have a feeling you spent decades on this, for the world to experience something you might possible never will truly see the full extent of....
also...there's this guy...who's been touring the world since 1995 (when szabo started blogging), talking about a new concept of money that might force the governments to bow to the peoples demands in relation to a more stable inflation rate. Super good at encryption knowledge and math. Really good at game theory too because they invented our solutions for it (bitcoin is about equilibrium game theory right?). One time they re wrote our understanding of economics but it took us 40 years to realize it (bitcoin has been 5 but the talks around the world have been 20?). They had to go into confinement for claiming they had the solution to governments colluding against the people. Super smart guy, like Szabo and Satoshi, only I feel like there is only one person at this magnitude of intelligence (why do we feel like there is 5?). Once time they wrote the government explaining they could create an effectively undecryptable encryption, also in another letter wrote about how a highly parallel computer system could function in a decentralized fashion...was over 50 years ago though....
