Re: Could Satoshi ever spend his Bitcoins?

if satoshi is human and humans make mistakes, i think it's possible a large number of his private keys have already been lost permanently.

I've considered that. However, some have speculated quant/s had to be involved. Could this really be the work of one man? Perhaps this group knew exactly what was going to happen. Under such a scenario, such carelessness could not have happened.

The coins have not been spent. They might have a purpose.

The code has been found to be meticulous.

Um the concept is amazing. Beyond amazing. Satoshi (individual or group) solved a large number of problems considered unsolvable and put into place a lot of elements which provide future security and enhancement.

However the code (translating that amazing concept into lines of code) is not meticulous. It is buggy, poorly documented, often times poorly implemented. The version you see now has involved tens of thousands of hours of work by post Satoshi developers and still is pretty "ugly" as codebases of that size go.