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Plus Satoshi's stake held by the NSA lol.

• lawlessone 3y ago
  If it's who a lot of people think he was. That stake is locked down until someone figures out how to revive cryopreserved people and cure ALS.
  • londons_explore 3y ago
    Or someone figures out that his computers random number generator just wasn't very good...
  • canoebuilder 3y ago
    Isn’t there some sequence of communication or something between Hal and Satoshi that makes it seem fairly implausible they were the same person? I’m not particularly up to speed here, is there some substantial evidence that seems to indicate that in fact they were one and the same?
    • lawlessone 3y ago
      There's no actual proof he is really. it's just circumstantial. And there is i think a message from Satoshi after Hal passed.
  • smeej 3y ago
    And even that's assuming whatever the storage medium was for the keys survives that long. If you were going to store a series of words for up to centuries without being able to check the backup, and without being able to make any changes to protect it, what would you use?
    • digging 3y ago
      A couple centuries isn't a terribly long time to preserve something if it's kept in an enclosure in a dry environment. It could be wood. I'm certain it wouldn't be, though.
    • bcjordan 3y ago
      interesting Q of the schelling point for such a scenario. maybe blockchain / stenography in wikipedia / his original paper/post / usenet if he kicked off a treasure hunt puzzle through some time-released clue in the future he'd basically be Ready Player One's James Halliday :D
  • biofox 3y ago
    Had no idea who you were referring to, so had to look it up. Apparently, Hal Finney may have been Satoshi, and he was cryopreserved back in 2014: https://www.wired.com/2014/08/hal-finney/ https://www.wired.com/2014/08/hal-finney/
  • nerpderp82 3y ago
    I like it. Now if Ulbrecht had had a dead man switch that triggers a break out of prison protocol...