Did he discuss the fact that some early users would become "elite" with large amounts of Bitcoins and the affects that could have later?
Dude! he was a man like you and me , not some guy like Oracle as in movies .
He didn't knew himself that this would get this bug , am sure he surely had good expectation of Bitcoin but saying such a thing that he announced it as free pass to Richieland isn't right.
Though he did said something in a
ThreadBasically, bring it on. Let's encourage Wikileaks to use Bitcoins and I'm willing to face any risk or fallout from that act.
No, don't "bring it on".
The project needs to grow gradually so the software can be strengthened along the way.
I make this appeal to WikiLeaks not to try to use Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is a small beta community in its infancy. You would not stand to get more than pocket change, and the heat you would bring would likely destroy us at this stage.
So you see it's quite the opposite of what you think