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The identity of Satoshi isn't known. Why should anyone have presumptions about them? I agree it would be a huge story, but "Satoshi's private keys were presume

• diminoten 7y ago
  Because wealth never spent isn't actually wealth. If Satoshi could have, he would have, by now.
• camjohnson26 7y ago
  What are you talking about, it would be the number one reason why.
  • delecti 7y ago
    "What happened to the private keys" is only an interesting question if we know something happened to them at all. For all anyone knows, Satoshi is a government biding its time, aliens, a hacker with a messy apartment, dead and their inheritors don't know what they have, already independently wealthy and doesn't care about their wallet, did it all for the lulz and doesn't care about the wallet. It's apparently not, but if this were Satoshi then I find these questions far more interesting: Who is Satoshi? Why was their identity hidden? Why emerge now?
    • camjohnson26 7y ago
      Satoshi was probably Hal Finney, who passed away in 2014. The most likely explanation of what happened to the keys is that they weren’t properly safe guarded early in development because no one thought that one day bitcoins would be worth $20,000 a piece. When Finney died their total value was “only” around $45 million.
      • delecti 7y ago
        If Satoshi is Hal Finney, and dead, then "what happened to the keys" isn't an interesting question. If this were Satoshi reemerging, then "what happened to the keys" isn't relevant, because they're clearly fine.