Quote from: BenOnceAgain on March 10, 2018, 03:02:25 AM

Quote from: remotemass on March 10, 2018, 01:03:26 AM

No, Satoshi Nakamoto is not an AI or a group of people. No, he is a real human being and he is not dead.
Satoshi is writing a book, named 'The shape of bitcoin' explaining his motivations and disclosing many secrets we didn't know.
He will reveal his work ready to be published as a book if the funds in his genesis block address reach a valuation of 21 million US dollars.
He intends to give all this raised money to the charity 'GiveDirectly', based in Africa.
It seems Satoshi is antecipating being found and decided to surprise the world before that.
Satoshi is a great writer. Believe me.

I have no doubt that Satoshi is a talented writer. You can see it in much of his writing on this forum and in some other archival locations. I look forward to reading his book.

If he chooses to come forward, that's great, but I can also understand why he'd want privacy. Having a lot of attention suddenly placed upon you can be a very stressful and anxiety-ridden experience. Plus there are practical considerations that have to be accounted for as well, given the estimated number of BTC he may have. Personally, that's why I don't support attempts to "dox" him. If he wants to come forward, he will. If not, he won't. He could even release his book without coming fully forward publically. It has been done before.

I believe that the funds that were mined in the genesis block cannot be spent because of how the genesis block is inserted into the blockchain (well actually creating block 0 of the chain, not really inserted). I don't think the 50 BTC transaction in the block is subject to the same validation code as a normal block. I could be wrong but I remember a few years back there was some discussion about that possibly being an oversight and in the end it was determined to keep it the way it is. I forget the reason why, I think probably it would introduce a potential vector to fork the chain straight from block 0. I'm sure it's around if you search, it had to be on here because years ago this is the only place I went for Bitcoin information.

However, for the BTC in that transaction to reach $21 million, each BTC would need to be worth $420,000. Nice number, lol, plus I believe it's very attainable in the medium term future. Also, GiveDirectly is a great charity!

Best regards,
Ben

One of the biggest mysteries in today's science and technology is who the so-called founder of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto is. Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym, which may be behind a person or a team. In 2008, Nakamoto published a white paper that first proposed the concept of "bitcoin." In 2009, Nakamoto released the first software for cryptocurrency. It is expected that Nakamoto will control approximately 1 million bitcoins. Now their value has exceeded 5 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for about 5% of all bitcoin holdings.