If Hal = Satoshi then don't you think he would have left his private keys for his wife and children?
I am of the opinion that Satoshi was not an individual but a collective of DARPA scientists that released their creation into the wild. Crypto is in its "wild west" infancy stages still. Just like when the military released the internet. It was a "wild west" freedom too and now it has become the world's greatest spy tool.
Blockchain can be used to turn you into a government slave if applied nefariously. For example, your Social Security number could be put on the blockchain and a certain service or product could be limited or denied if you didn't pay your taxes.
Give this tech another 10 years and you will see government blockchain controlling your life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist)
Harold Thomas Finney II (May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014) ...
Extortionists have demanded fees of more bitcoins than Finney had left after using the majority of them to cover medical expenses in 2013.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/01/03/hal-finney-received-the-first-bitcoin-transaction-heres-how-he-describes-it/?utm_term=.3911531ba241Here's how he described his initial involvement in Bitcoin in a forum post in March of this year: ...
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"My bitcoins are stored in our safe deposit box, and my son and daughter are tech savvy. I think they're safe enough. I'm comfortable with my legacy."
So, which is it? All of Hal's bitcoins went toward medical expenses or they were passed to his tech-savvy heirs?
Also gleaned from the last link ...
But he also had worked on cryptographic digital currencies -- having met and corresponded with Wei Dai and Nick Szabo, the people generally acknowledged to have come up with the intellectual precursors to Bitcoin, and attempted to create his own cryptocurrency.
I content that Hal, Wei, Nick and perhaps a couple other cypherpunks were secretly recruited by
James Simons, a former NSA employee who claims to dislike the Federal Reserve (
a must read, occurring less than two weeks after the creation of the Bitcoin White paper), the [
Renaissance Technologies LLC] mantle passed to Robert Mercer and Peter Brown.
I further postulate that Nick Szabo was the [online] voice of Satoshi and that Renaissance has complete control of early mined bitcoins under the auspices of Satoshi Nakamoto.
Speakin' of control, [on a side note] did you ever notice that all the monologues of late night comedians when referencing Trump (or any other topic fresh in the news) never employ the exact same jokes, albeit the theme is consistent? Them writers are very bright dudes and could've easily pen jokes virtually echoing verbatim what their counterparts penned for their comedian host. To me it's like they're sharing copy with one another, rotating the best jokes on a show-by-show basis. But I digress.
