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Maybe it's just me, but who cares who Satoshi is? Knowing wouldn't change anything.

• lsiq 7y ago
  Well, for one reason, if Satoshi is alive; he can easily crash the entire bitcoin market if his wallets start selling currency. If he's dead, (which is the case if he's Finney), then that is a not a risk. If he is alive, then the likelyhood of him cashing out at some point is pretty high. He may be only be waiting for the moment when there is enough liquidity in the market for him to dump it all at once - and we're probably not quite there yet, he's said to have just under 1M BTC.
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• robbrown451 7y ago
  Just because it isn't an interesting mystery to you, doesn't mean it isn't (or shouldn't be) an interesting mystery to anyone else.
  • Lowkeyloki 7y ago
    That's a completely fair point.
• bdcravens 7y ago
  Once upon a time this was true. However, many parties have placed stakes in the ground regarding the identity claim. Here's a non-exhaustive list of a few. - Calvin Ayre - billionaire (mostly from online gambling sites) who has backed Wright and BSV (Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision), who along with holders of BSV, would lose big if Wright's Satoshi's claims come unwound - US Copyright office - if veracity of Wright's Satoshi claims are disproven, they would revoke his copyright grant - the entire cryptocurrency market - Wright claims he will sell off his (Satoshi's) mined coins when the trust allegedly releases them to him in about a year. We're talking over 1 million BTC (+ forked coins, like BCH, BTG, and BSV). For years the movement of those coins has been watched; the second they start moving, the market will panic. Billions of dollars in value will be destroyed overnight. - Australian Tax Office - Wright has been in hot-water with them before; his possession of a $10B asset would be very interesting to them.