Quote from: tvbcof on March 08, 2014, 05:59:57 AM

Quote from: DaFockBro on March 08, 2014, 05:36:11 AM

Quote from: Warren on March 08, 2014, 05:34:54 AM

Well first of all it matters to him! His life as he knew it is ruined and he must have feared this day coming! Sad

Secondly, I think it will matter to us soon as well!

How long before he is subpoenaed and forced to tell the truth, or risk a long prison sentence?

That day will indeed be a very sad day for Bitcoin. I suspect that he will denounce the way that Bitcoin has developed and if that were to happen the authorities (and the world) will take that as a green light to simply make it illegal.

Remember that he was strongly opposed to Bitcoin even being used for donations to Wikileaks, and that was the time he left the forum and Bitcoin for good. Sad

Or was it Gavin's visit to the CIA or health problems or a recognition that his influence was shrinking as things picked up steam or did he get more interested in turning a wheel for a model train? Or some combination. Whether Dorian is Satoshi or not, he probably did have at least a working familiarity with the inteligence apparatus of the U.S.

Quote from: DaFockBro on March 08, 2014, 05:36:11 AM

Yeah his life is totally ruined. He's been reduced to a samurai legend with a massive fortune who will be written into the history books.

LOL! Whoever Satoshi is he probably knew what he was doing and had at least a strong sense that he was playing with fire. Nowhere is it more fitting then here to use the phrase "If you cannot stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen." I guess he considered it and did vacate the kitchen.

I'll bet that the NSA has known who Satoshi is even before the Wikilieaks thing, and certainly they did afterwards. And that Satoshi was fully aware of this. Only a fool would believe that doing an end-run around the efforts to get PayPal and Visa to prostitute themselves for Uncle Sam would bring significant scrutiny. Whatever Satoshi felt about Wikileaks he certainly seemed to recognize this. He was probably as amazed as I was that the solution survived given the relatively early stage of it's development and the dismal level of stress-testing and QA that the community tends to muster.

Agreed. The Wikileaks thing was probably his "this shit is getting cray" moment. No way someone would predict their little isolated academic experiment would blow up like that.