>No need for chase schemes and cash briefcases. Moving that many Bitcoins in cash would be hard: 1. who would pay USD for them, 2. putting them for sale on a

>No need for chase schemes and cash briefcases. Moving that many Bitcoins in cash would be hard: 1. who would pay USD for them, 2. putting them for sale on an exchange would crash the market, 3. and when everyone found out that Bitcoins were stolen from Satoshi, I suspect the Bitcoin community would rally together to hunt the person down, while blacklisting the transactions to make them unspendable (also to prevent a crash of the Bitcoin market). All of this is silly though, anyone with that many Bitcoin should protect them with muiltisig[0] and make one of the parties to the multisig their attorney. Failing that Satoshi could just secret share his private key[1]. Certainly people unfamiliar with the details of Bitcoin may not take such precautions but Satoshi is not a member of that set. Never underestimate human stupidity, but a rational criminal has much better risk-rewards ratio to choose them. A discussion of how Satoshi can and probably does protect his or her Bitcoin should reduce the risks of such a crime. [0]: http://www.coindesk.com/year-multisig-so-far/ http://www.coindesk.com/year-multisig-so-far/ [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing