Quote from: KonstantinosM on Today at 03:55:59 PM

We know what Satoshi did (my speculative take follows).

He got paranoid when the Feds started getting close. He didn't want to deal with the heat so he disappeared.

It's possible that he suffered a mental breakdown, it's also possible that he lives a more private life. It's possible that somebody made him disappear too.

If you wanna guess on what he'd do, first read the whitepaper, then read some of his posts.

It will all be very enlightening.

But heed my warning. Bitcoin is not a cult of personality. We don't worship satoshi. The greatest gift satoshi did is not turn Bitcoin into a cult of personality.

He also gave as a great gift of not using his coins. Being the first he probably mined tons of bitcoin. He probably doesn't even have the keys anymore but even if he does, his strong hands have made bitcoin a lot scarcer therefore more valuable.

His hands are so strong that I don't thing we can say they're made out of steel or even diamond.

They're hands of marble, a statue, a long dead man from an ancient civilization.

What would satoshi do? No-one can say for sure. But he was a cautious man. He didn't want to get the attention of the feds and he didn't want the bitcoin community to do that either. He didn't want us needlessly kicking the hornets nest.

It is kind of ironic to think of what satoshi will do when in fact some of the most influential things that I can think about satoshi are the things that he didn't do, as you say one perfect example of this how he has been able to keep holding his coins despite having billions of dollars which rightfully belong to him, this is why many speculate that either he died shortly after he leaved the community or that he has lost his coins forever, but if neither of those scenarios are correct and he can actually access those coins then he is even more legendary than what we think.

Also as you say it is really important that he was willing to let go of bitcoin and let fly on its own because if he didn't then the community will revolve around satoshi and not around bitcoin which was his intention from the beginning.