Quote from: NeverLoseVision on December 08, 2013, 09:23:39 AM

@Gusti:

I apologize that you feel like my research is obnoxious.

Let me explain. The information I provided was simply for fun rather than some wild attempt to locate the founder. Honestly, I could not care less who he or she or they are, but would like to publicly congratulate them nonetheless on an absolutely magnificent piece of work that has a chance to change the world.

As mentioned, for a living I work in the media consulting industry so I felt that my rare data should be shared within the Bitcoin community to stimulate the forum by providing evidence of the trends and ownership records of domain assets, no harm intended.

Take care.

It's true that btc has gone far beyond what its creator(s) could possibly have imagined.

However, I feel this research does corroborate two pieces of data we have about btc:

1. How politically distant "Satoshi" was from btc's community (privacy advocates, free traders, cryptography/cryptocurrency fans, libertarians, etc.) since its inception

2. How Karpelès has treated Mt. Gox since he acquired it - implementing trading caps, price controls, removing privacy to withdraw USD, otherwise interfering with the market

It seems to me Karpelès/Satoshi came into this not as a part of the community but as someone interested in capitalizing off the niche, and the way he is running Mt. Gox now - like a state, basically - proves he is not particularly interested in liberty, privacy, et al.

Just my 2 mBTC