Quote from: QuestionAuthority on June 30, 2014, 04:31:38 AM

Quote from: Light on June 30, 2014, 03:45:55 AM

Quote from: InwardContour on June 30, 2014, 03:18:50 AM

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Quote from: 3elks on June 26, 2014, 05:32:47 PM

What if he is working on something new? Something that would outshine Bitcoin??

I think he is not working on anything new, since he is allready rich, first few thousands of BTC mined are his, i'm sure. This can be checked somehow i guess, who was the first miner and how much did he mine so far ?

He has little ways of being able to cash out of his bitcoin holdings. So while he may have a lot of assets (bitcoin) he has no way of exchanging them for goods/services that he needs.

That's not exactly true. Right now there a lot of exchanges open that would easily be able to deal with 50-100BTC which would easily suffice for the short term day to day costs. We don't know all of his addresses and as long as he does not withdraw excessive amounts very rapidly it'll be hard to track him down. A couple hundred of BTC over the course of a year would make him quite comfortable without drawing too much suspicion provided that the trades were done in regular small amounts.

If even one coin moved it would be instantly noticed. His coins have never moved.

He did transfer some of his coins in the early days of bitcoin.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91806.msg1012234#msg1012234

Since he has disappeared, AFAIK he has not moved any of his coins.