<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 4 May 2019 at 10:31 pm, John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 8:00 PM Stathis Papaioannou <<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com" target="_blank">stathisp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> <i></i></span><i>He would have other wallets with much smaller amounts of Bitcoin that he could spend.</i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">I think the only way that could be true would be if, as some people think, former Extromian List member Hal Finney was Satoshi Nakamoto. The reason Satoshi Nakamoto has so many Bitcoins is that he didn't have to mine them, the system was just designed at the start with him having them. The first person to actually mine Bitcoins, and the second name on the blockchain after Satoshi Nakamoto, was Hal Finney; after that if Satoshi wanted more bitcoins he'd have to mine them just like everybody else.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4">But if Hal Finney was Satoshi Nakamoto why didn't he donate his Bitcoins to Alcor when he died in 2014? After all he knew he was dying and if he could trust Alcor to freeze his body you'd think he could trust them with his Bitcoins. And if Satoshi never had any intention of spending those Bitcoins why did he set it up that way? Maybe he got hit by a bus or something.</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think only the so-called genesis block of 50 Bitcoins was premined. In any case, it was clear that Satoshi wanted to remain anonymous from the start, and moving any coins from the original wallet would have compromised that. But once the system was going he could easily have set up multiple other wallets and started mining, and nothing would have connected those wallets to the original wallet. The main reason to do this would be if he thought that Bitcoin would one day be valuable.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hal Finney said he would leave his Bitcoins to his heirs.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7jsp0s/one_of_the_last_posts_made_by_hal_finney_on/">https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7jsp0s/one_of_the_last_posts_made_by_hal_finney_on/</a></div><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"></font></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div>