Post
Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Satoshi: "You should never delete a wallet"
by
louise123
on 06/05/2015, 10:21:34 UTC
The person who originally sent the broken transactions deleted his wallet
Sigh... why delete a wallet instead of moving it aside and keeping the old copy just in case?  You should never delete a wallet.

For sure he has a backup. Somewhere...

Probably, but if he died without telling anyone about it, then they may have been deleted or destroyed by whomever gained control of his things.

I don't believe Satoshi has the keys to his wallet(s), nor has he ever actually kept them in any way. He was all about decentralization, and if he held that many coins, he knew people would have to live in constant "fear" of him being able to release a ton of coins. We waned out his influence on the network gradually in order to give it to the public domain.

Im pretty sure he still owns the coins. No one would know he owns those coins, because no one knows who he is in real life, therefore there's nothing to worry about that, he could go on being a multimillionaire anonymously.



Here is a list of people who know exactly who Satoshi is or have met him or acquintance:

-Jon Matonis
-Andreas Antonopoulis
-Jeff Garzik
-Peter Todd
-Edward Snowden
-Gavin Andresen
-Hal Finney
-Ross Ulbricht
-Mark Karpeles
-Mark Zuckerberg
-Winklevoss Twins
-Barry Silbert
-Charles Lee

should I keep going?

That's a very big and interesting list of names.
May I ask what makes you think that these people even have a clue as to who Satoshi is?