alt Hacker News>his financial incentive to hide his identity as Satoshi under US securities law
I don't think you can attribute this to financial incentive. The actual Satoshi could forfeit 90% of their BTC and still have more than they could know what to do with.
At those kinds of levels I can see personal security being a higher consideration.
Either way it would give no indication who might be Satoshi because all candidates would have a similar incentive if they were Satoshi, and you are measuring the absence of information.
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For that wealth to mean anything he has to withdraw from it, and wouldn't that produce a paper trail?
Apologies if its mentioned in TFA, I only got halfway through it... the author's self-indulgence was getting to be a bit much
> The actual Satoshi could forfeit 90% of their BTC and still have more than they could know what to do with.
Ha, that may be technically true but when did you ever find a billionaire who would be OK with it?
why does everybody assume that whoever is Satoshi still has access to their wallet? It's absolutely possible whoever is Satoshi has simply lost the key.
We're talking new technology where you're running fast and loose. It's absolutely possible, and I'd say a big reason why someone would not want to admit to being Satoshi.
I'm Satoshi, but I also lost billions because I messed up a Debian upgrade.