Its true, Satoshi could have burned his coins. There are several legitimate reasons not to do so-- one of which is that it might have indicated a belief that b

Its true, Satoshi could have burned his coins. There are several legitimate reasons not to do so-- one of which is that it might have indicated a belief that bitcoin was a failure, and such a shock in the early days would have been bad. If satoshi sometime shows up and starts moving his coins, that's fine by me. He deserves to be super rich, because what he created is revolutionary. Notice he said "it looks like he doesn't even want to be paid for it". But also realize, there's the satoshi coins, but there's no way to know how many other addresses he mined to, and that its quite possible he has 100k coins that have been moving since he disappeared and nobody knows they are his. Or he could have started mining after he disappeared or started investing cash to buy them after, and still be very rich.