Topic: If Satoshi is not dead, what is he doing? - page 2. (Read 1128 times)

There are many who can use such technical words understanding about the working of bitcoin and you can see some high rank technical members have full knowledge about them so it's hard to judge from words or writing style but what is the need of all this? He wish to remain silent and leave the space on his own or due to some other reasons but bitcoin is still the same in his absence also so why we are always running behind these matters?

Nobody has any idea if he is still alive or not. If he is still alive, he is probably surprised as to how his small idea has managed to capture the attention of people all over the globe.

Do you think he is dead already?
I'm sure Satoshi should have a plan for the worst situation in his life. He is the creator of BTC, he must think that he will die someday and he probably makes a plan to give access to those BTC to someone trusted by him. But he must give the message that never spends the Bitcoin until Bitcoin reaches its goal.

Regarding Craig, I think Satoshi doesn't care about him. Satoshi doesn't need to destroy Craig, Craig destroys himself. 

I wonder if that will happen to bitcoin in the future. LOL
We're just assuming, if satoshi was alive, he would laugh at how worried we are about his life status out there with his bag full of bitcoin. Some developers are happy to have him back, but neither for investors or traders.

Obviously, he's going to be interrogated for days somewhere just because the government wants to get a way to make bitcoin centralized.

Who the heck knows really. If I had to guess, I think they are likely lurking around on this forum from time to time and are likely working on another new project. Perhaps something having to do with smart contracts (something Satoshi refers to in his escrow thread). Either way, thank you Satoshi regardless of whatever you’re doing !

If Satoshi is still alive right now, probably he’s very proud of his own investment that is giving a lot of opportunities to create profits for everyone. He must be peacefully living with his grandkids these days or he must be somewhere in a luxury place chilling with his loved ones. Or maybe, he is also busy managing his own business because we know he has a brilliant mind from the start.

I'm very sure that if Satoshi should resurface and prove that he is alive, a lot of things are going to happen which will not end well for everyone in the market, have you noticed that anytime an old wallet addresses that were last active in 10 years back spend a single bitcoin, traders began to speculate and sell or close their position because they fear that he(satoshi) will dump his bags on them to gain access to the liquidity.
Another reason why I think satoshi might want to remain anonymous could also be because the government will want him, they will want to hear a lot of answers, it is better things remain like this, not as if he did bitcoin alone, there has been lots of improvement since he was last seen online.

Op just made he or her opinion by emphasising that Satoshi is dead, so from the basic information content their is no vlear evidence that indicates that Satoshi Nakamoto is no more in existence. I believe that if Satoshi is no more few members of this noble institution would have be known. Maybe i think saying that Bitcoin is dead is just is applicable by someone who said that Satoshi is no more

I do not know the situation of which you speak; but merely from your description, that sounds like it could have been a non-compete clause.  And more generally, as I gently implied in my prior post, some employees have ridiculously weird contracts with their employers.

I am quite confident that there is no such thing as a “law” in every potentially relevant jurisdiction “automatically” giving employers some sort of “intellectual property” rights to all of their employees’ off-the-job creations.  (And if there were such a thing, then the open-source software movement would be a practical impossibility!)


Why speculate on something which is likely irrelevant, for which there is no evidence?

He's probably playing chees on his Bengal tiger on his BTC-built compound on Mars. JK. Everything stated is under the assumption that it's one person, and it might be a collective. A collective of cryptographers and hackers that wanted to do something different. And if you know anything about that generation of hackers is that they probably wouldn't live extraordinary lifestyles (cashing all of their BTC) because they just did it as an experiment and for the love of it.

Monitoring us? maybe he is one of those posting here that has deeper knowledge about Bitcoin and its functions ? who really knows?

if he is truly alive then surely he will never let down this market and will keep doing what would be the better for everyone .

also maybe he remains silent because in that way? bitcoin made its way up to this because if there is a continues updating from him then maybe the government already took over this place.

Why he still hiding?

Well, all we have is probabilities for this, as we don't know for sure.

Given that the vast majority of people involved in tech are men, and that the vast majority of people involved in Bitcoin in the early days were men, then it follows that most probably Satoshi was/is a man.

Of course it can be a woman, but that would be unlikely.

ICorrect, it's not important to know what he's doing. If he doesn't want to come out in public, no problem. We should give them a rest.  Bitcoin is important, not what he's doing. There are many reasons for not coming out, it is said that he is a great inventor, if he does come out he might be forced to do something wrong, There are many dishonest people around us, it is not impossible to be forced by them. not sure just my opinion.

breathing, walking, talking, sitting, standing, sleeping.

if not dead then breathing is essential and something he definitely doing all the time
as for the rest, well thats speculation, he might be doing some of them all the time, all of them some of the time, able to do all or some, no one here knows, nor should need to know


just to read/look at progress. anyone can do that without 'getting involved' its called open source for a reason
just open a web browser and all the information is there. no need to get involved just to read/look at progress

now your entering the speculation zone. he didnt need an alt account. people can read posts and github code without accounts

I remembered a story about Steve Wozniak, who invented the Apple 1 while he was under the employment of HP. Before Steve Jobs, and him can start Apple, Steve Wozniak was required to have the permission of HP to be given the absolute rights to start building the Apple 1.

It might be good to have a lawyer to clarify it for us, or a Bitcoin developer who knows something about Intellectual Property.

I'm just having shower thoughts that what if Satoshi worked for a Fintech company?

This can be the only reason that ^almosteveryone refers to Satoshi as "him".
I find it curious when people point out the obvious in that the identity of Satoshi is unknown
but yet continue to assume it as him, I know its more than likely something that happens automatically ↓


Satoshi could indeed still be active on this forum and the first place Satoshi would have gone
back to and could still be active in is the "Development and Technical Discussion" board!

But yea until officially discounted anything is possible.

You won’t believe this and ignore and move on. But he did a complete back flip from BTC, He started a business in the Phillipines called Tagcash. Seek and ye shall find the evidence.

No, I agreed with what you had said before.  Please reread.

My perspective, trying to put myself in Satoshi’s shoes:  If I had created Bitcoin, I would be mortally terrified of being outed.  Maybe I would consider a digitally signed “deathbed confession”, or evidence released on a deadman’s switch, so that I could be remembered by history—or maybe not; why would it be important to be remembered by a so-called “real name”, instead of by a self-chosen pseudonym?  I guess that such a decision would probably depend on the details of Satoshi’s life; and even outing himself when dead may place his heirs at risk.  Anyway, I understand why Satoshi may want to preserve his privacy.


No.  To your question, absolutely not!  Do you suppose that an open-source patch contributed to some project by an employee off-the-job is always, in all cases automatically copyrighted by the employee’s $DAYJOB?

You seem to be thinking of the “works for hire” doctrine.  That generally applies only to works made within the scope of employment.  The details, extent, and limitations of this rule (or even whether it applies at all) vary wildly by jurisdiction.

I note that we have no idea where Satoshi was located at the time that he created Bitcoin, and any clues he left may be intentional disinformation of the type that I myself not infrequently sow.  (His apparently Japanese name, his use of a British newspaper headline in Block 0, his alternation of British and American spelling—even “his” use of an apparently masculine pseudonym and online persona.)

As a precondition of employment, some employers require an employee’s agreement to an employment contract that greatly extends the scope of what “intellectual property” the employer can claim as theirs.  Some jurisdictions have laws limiting such contracts.  This is a very complicated area of the law.

Nothing that I say here should be construed as legal advice.  I only seek hereby to show that the broad-brush statement quoted above is incorrect on its face.  I would not want inadvertently to FUD Bitcoin’s status in this regard.

There’s no reason for Satoshi to come back since it won’t also do nothing to bitcoin. It’s better to see him having his own peace of mind being away from the spotlight. Well, if he’s still alive these days, most likely he’s also living a great life with a great family business. Bitcoin is a living proof that Satoshi has an exceptional way of thinking ideas, so might as well use it in his own advantage.