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You don't need 15yr of foresight. I can see someone keeping their mouth shut for the first X years on the basis of "things are going well, my project is being
by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
You don't need 15yr of foresight. I can see someone keeping their mouth shut for the first X years on the basis of "things are going well, my project is being adopted, I had better not F with it by increasing the number of coins in play lest there be unintended consequences" and then at some point deciding that things have gotten out of hand, the stakes are too high, pulling the hard drive off the shelf, drilling it and tossing it in the bay.
- sph 4y agoI can't see anybody having that self-control is my point. I can't think of any person in history that has shown this level of restraint, especially about a very valuable and very controversial invention. Occam's razor says it's easier to assume he's dead than trying to imagine him as the most patient Buddhist monk, with deep economic and cryptographic knowledge, the world has ever seen. But we could go on with this discussion for years, so let's just agree to disagree and wait and see if his name surfaces again or not. There's bound to be more and more hucksters trying to claim they're Satoshi the longer this legend lives.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y ago> I can't think of any person in history that has shown this level of restraint, You wouldn't know about them, holy hell haha
- sph 4y agoFair enough, but I raise Jesus as a counter argument of very restrained individual that still is pretty famous, among his other "achievements".
- Fnoord 4y agoi would be able to control myself. After all, if I had enough money to be rich I wouldn't require more.