Re: What is this fascination with claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto?
I don't understand why anybody would want to be Satoshi.
He is sitting on a huge stash of Bitcoins, worth (at the time of writing this) billions of dollars, so any casual crack-head who announces to the world to be Satoshi will inevitably be targeted by scammers and extortionists who would try to rob them of pretty much everything they've got. Since most of them certainly don't have millions to sit on themselves.
As I said earlier, they are looking for popularity in the crypto ecosystem and they are utilizing Satoshi's name as the driving force. He is sitting on a huge stash of Bitcoins, worth (at the time of writing this) billions of dollars, so any casual crack-head who announces to the world to be Satoshi will inevitably be targeted by scammers and extortionists who would try to rob them of pretty much everything they've got. Since most of them certainly don't have millions to sit on themselves.
But somehow they didn't see how risky it would be if they claimed to be Satoshi and there were people who really believed it so that it became a criminal target to be able to take a lot of bitcoin from him.
Even owners of crypto assets with hundreds to millions of dollars are subjected to many scams and robbery attempts.
Publicizing the identity of crypto asset owners is dangerous and no one would want to do that when they know the risks involved.
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I wouldn't be surprised if sometime in the future we see another person claiming to be the real Satoshi Nakamoto. People and the media will eventually get tired of all this nonsense as they focus on what matters most. It's not about Satoshi, but rather the community as a whole. Unless Satoshi's BTC holdings start moving on the Blockchain, we should have nothing to worry about.
People will get tired of it, we can see how everyone is fed up with CSW and he is not even a trending topic anymore. I wouldn't be surprised if sometime in the future we see another person claiming to be the real Satoshi Nakamoto. People and the media will eventually get tired of all this nonsense as they focus on what matters most. It's not about Satoshi, but rather the community as a whole. Unless Satoshi's BTC holdings start moving on the Blockchain, we should have nothing to worry about.
Always when bullish comes the figure of satoshi is always associated with appearing and so on.