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RE: John McAfee says he knows who Satoshi is...
I lean towards it being Dave Kleiman because it's hard for me to fathom someone still alive not touching that wallet all this time. Even when billions were sitting in there. Plus Craig Wright seems to know some things only those at the very beginning would know, but he can't access that wallet, which means it's not him. Though he likely might have been part of the original group that included Kleiman.
Well, that's assuming anyone has access to the accounts people know about. No matter who it was, they could have lost access years ago. Tons of people have lost access to their bitcoin wallets over the years.
The writing style matched Hal Finney though, so I think he was involved with writing the white paper, whether or not he was Satoshi. Since he's now dead though, the keys are either lost, or held by a trust.
Perhaps one day the accounts will be accessed and have some bitcoin sold and then we'll all freak out and wonder...and we still might not know.
Yes that is very possible, though with the amount of bitcoins in there and the know-how that the original creators possessed when it comes to all things crypto, one could assume that the owner of those keys is more likely to be dead than those keys being "lost". At least that is the narrative that fits the most amount of facts to me. Though, anything is possible. Heck they could have burned the keys on purpose, though if that was the plan why not cap the total at 20 million instead of 21 million to start with?!
Technological know-how doesn't preclude loss of data. I don't even know how many hard drives have failed on me over the years...including backups...and backups of backups. Of course, if you have that much bitcoin, you can certainly always buy another hard drive or tape or whatever to backup your backups.
My point being that much of the lost bitcoin was due to carelessness as well as people not really knowing what they were doing or taking the proper precautions. One might assume the original creators would know what they need to do to not lose their coins...
Yeah. But even Elon Musk reportedly lost his keys to his bitcoin...and some people for some reason think he could be Satoshi...dunno why...
My point was just that shit happens. Over years, you can possibly lose your keys, even with an abundance of caution.
Of course you could, but if I were to put my money on it, I would bet they didn't "lose" the keys to that wallet...
Yeah, no matter who has them, they're probably held in a trust by now. I just hope whoever's in charge of that trust isn't an idiot and causes another crypto crash when they eventually sell some.
No, I think the owner of that wallet passed away. I think it was Dave Kleiman. Which would explain why it hasn't been used, even when it was worth billions.