Topic: Satoshi has how many Bitcoins? - page 2. (Read 8743 times)

yes very true

And that we could be dedicated to staying anonymous for various reason.

He could be a we.

I don't know I kinda hope he deleted them....

But I understand him. I hope he has still all keys of the first blocks.

He can spend them, after bitcoins are not crazy exponential growing anymore :-)

But maybe he is a group of people or institution, who knows?

I'm starting to think Satoshi is dead. I mean he is the guardian's 2013 man of the year and he is still hidden? hmmm....

One day Hollywood will make a movie about Satoshi and the bitcoin story, I guess 

and who knows if we ever will?

If he is having one million coins, then BTC should reach $1,000,000 mark for him to become a trillionaire. If you ask me whether it is theoretically possible, then I'd say yes.

But the second part, i.e BTC crashing from $1,000,000 to $5. No chance. Not even a slight chance.

that's the thing, we will most likely never know

Is Satoshi alive? Maybe he is dead, and all this discussion is worthless and all his bitcoins were lost forever.

Very interresting video. Hope we will know the real character anytime soon.

Prediction: In 2014 or 2015... Satoshi cashes out all of his bitcoins, making him the world's first trillionaire driving the price of BTCs back to single digits

But the FBI also seized falsified identification documents from him (such as driver's license and SSN). Do you still believe that DPR is someone other than Ulbricht?

that's crazy, it really just expands the whole mystery of satoshi

I only ever saw it in email, on three different cryptography lists.  Metzdowd, Cypherpunks, and one that's no longer funct. I heard that some people talked to him on IRC a few times but I never did.

yea me too, I'm also very very curious !!

No.  The chain that started on January 9 2009 is the chain that is still active.

But there were several blockchains that started on earlier dates with different Genesis Blocks, in November and December of 2008 - each of which ended when it became clear that the protocol needed a fix and the fix couldn't happen leaving the early blocks valid.

This is why we have a 'testnet' now.  

wow that is so incredible, it must be awesome to know you got to send him emails I wonder if he's reading these very messages about us talking about him :0 but again thank you it was a very interesting story to read about and you gave some perspective as to the fact he must be at least around 30 or older if he was using a rare obscure file format like that 

I remember talking with him in email when he announced stuff to the crypto list way back in the way back.  He was very intense, in a way you started to realize only slowly.  If you explained a problem, he'd shut up and listen, then work night and day to fix it.  If you *told* him there was a problem, but didn't explain it, he'd badger you until you broke it down and made it exactly clear what you were on about.  Then you wouldn't hear 'boo' from him until it was fixed.  

Sometimes I remember thinking he didn't ever sleep if there was work to be done on the code; he didn't seem to have anything like a schedule other than 24/7 when working on code -- he was as likely to be online at any hour of the day or night as at any other, but wouldn't stay in contact for more than about 30 seconds.  But if there wasn't work to do on code (or if he was talking about the code or trying to get feedback) he seemed most active early in the morning (US/Pacific time). I have no idea if that was 'morning' wherever he was.

I have source code for the original Bitcoin client and miner, from November 2008.  in a RAR archive, if you can believe it.  RAR is obscure now.  Hell, it was obscure in 2008.  Nobody but an olde-skool dyed-in-the-wool download geek from way back in the 1980s would be all that likely to use it, and the number of people who'd even heard of it was dwindling fast by that point.

No RPC, no UPNP, no QT, barely any use of Boost.  It's just two files of C++ code.

I can confirm that the blockchain restarted several times while the kinks were getting worked out. The original code  has a different 'genesis block' hash.