Hello Auralea, you have a good points to talk about here, lets start.
Dear fellow cryptopians,
I never got why all of the Bitcoin forks focus on such trivial software changes while there is one major problem in my opinion with Bitcoin: the % of Bitcoin held by Satoshi Nakamoto. I realise that whoever SN is, he deserves to be rich for the rest of his life if he truly contributed Blockchain and Bitcoin as an application to the world. However, let me explain why I think the crypto community cannot afford to let SN hold this wealth.
*The bitcoin cash fork wasn't just trival software changes, moving from 1mb block to 8mb was a big step for the coin.
*Satoshi nakamoto is holding 1 million BTC, we all consider those coins lost and he leave us a good quote for it:
Lost coins only make everyone else's coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone. *If he move the coins the he will be traceable, that's why it will not happen.
IF Bitcoin continues to rise in price, SN might become the richest person to have ever lived in history except it will not just be value in stocks, it will be in the equavalent of cold hard cash. Of course he couldn't spend it all for the same price due to slipage, but it would be more liquid than any such amount of money before since it is intended to be liquid. We also have to take into account the possibilities that:
1. SN is not a single person but a group, with complex and/or unknown motivations
2. SN is not a single person but an agency of some nationstate or representatives thereof
3. SN is a single person but he has complex/unknown motivations besides innovation
4. SN is a conglomerate of banks who plan to use Bitcoin as a covert way of controlling wealth through POS and owning a large %
*The richest persons in the world get there with big business, this only proves how big bitcoin has become. This great idea called bitcoin is one of the biggest ideas in the human history and deserve to worth those millions.
But i'm agree with you,he could be multiple guys behind the idea, but at end we don't care at all about that because the white paper is clean and the core is open source. That's why we trust it.
My proposed solution:
Fork Bitcoin AND Bitcoin Cash and fully restart their blockchains in a public event. This would include following all of the coding upgrades to these chains so as to keep the code 1:1 equal to the versions including SN's coins. This way, the currencies mining will be decentralised from day one, preventing anyone from grabbing as large a percentage as SN did. I do realise a lot of people WANT SN to have this money, or they feel like he deserves it. As I stated above, I think SN should be rich, but not at the expense of the rest of the network, the decentralisation and the trust we have in the foundation of this system. There can always be a donation system to SN, especially if he/she/they would show their face. I am convinced the crypto community would then make him/her/them instant millionaires, or even billionaires solving two problems in one (their anon status and their wealth).
Thanks for taking the time to read this and I appreciate all feedback and responses!
Greetings,
Auralea
*This idea is impossible, you can restart a coin. You can change the genesis block and start a new one.
*If you delete the blockchain, then no one will have btc and we will wait 9 years again to have the amount of btc we have on the market, will be like start from zero again.
*If you don't like how is bitcoin distributed, just take a look to other coins distribution, you will see they are x10 worst than this one