Satoshis Bitcoin have no chance of being moved until Hal Finney cryogenic preserved body is revived in 100+ years from now. If Hal was Satoshi, they will do everything in their power to bring him back to life when Bitcoin is the global reserve currency.
That would be awesome. It's year 2100, countries around the world were competing for the last 50yrs to be the first one to revive Hal. One finally succeeds.
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In reality, if Bitcoin does take over, Hal Finneys body will be worth more than ANYTHING....just on the mere speculation that he remembers or knows the method of retrieving the private keys.
those early coins will be grabbed when quantum computers of sufficient capacity arrive. 10+ years maybe. so Hal is not needed for the coins. but for his possible knowledge of the true satoshi.. welcome back Hal (i hope).
edit: no i dont want to know who satoshi is. but thats up to Hal. and if thats the reason to thaw him out so be it. i just want him back. he got a raw deal.
I am presuming that Hal is never coming back, in spite of a lot of fantasies about that.
However, let's assume for the sake of argument that Hal was not satoshi or part of satoshi's team.
Then wouldn't it be possible, and maybe even likely, that he did not know who satoshi was, either?
Again, presuming that hal finney was not satoshi or a part of satoshi (not really a light presumption), I have a kind of tentative belief that some day that something is going to leak about who was the actual satoshi... .. but maybe the actual satoshi (or team or whatever) is too much alive and too much still involved in bitcoin that it would be prudent to NOT be leaking any of that information, currently.