Quote from: tabas on August 26, 2025, 09:40:10 PM

Let's just hope that he's left them and will be untouched forever. Maybe there is an exploration team that tries to decode the wallet but it won't possibly happen anytime soon. As he has said, let's treat that as a donation to the community and the market that we have. While he's done it brilliantly, the institutions are now chasing all the Bitcoins that they can get but there are these bitcoins from satoshi and the others that are lost forever that won't take.

It will be possible to recover coins that have the public key exposed, but when that is going to happen nobody really knows. Because of that it is important to remember that when these assumed coins do move, it is not going to be because it is satoshi. You can recognize satoshi by his behavior or words. That is why it was for example obvious that Craig Wright had zero chance of being Satoshi. Dorian was a much likely candidate because of his personality, even if it was not him. Grin

Quote from: adaseb on August 26, 2025, 09:48:01 PM

Well we dont know whether he touched it or not. He didnt touch any of the earlier coins he mined with his laptop and with his known footprint. However how do we know if he didnt mine with another method in late 2009 or early 2010. He could of still mined a few BTC a day with regular GPUs and he might still be around and selling his coins backwards. Basically the latest mined coins he sell first and then moves on to the older ones.

Its just a theory but its possible. I think a few times last year a few coins from 2010 were actually sold. They were from the coinbase reward so they never moved until 15 years later. Maybe one of those is Satoshi, most likely not however.

Well I think that the idea is more in terms of the assumed coins of satoshi. The coins that we think were his. From these he practically didn't touch any. Even if he touched a few it does not matter, because we are talking about it in a relative sense. Satoshi was just so radically different from every single altcoin founder that came afterwards. That is the important point, it does not matter if he didn't touch 99 percent or 100 percent of the coins that is just a minor detail.

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