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I mean, why does anyone care who created bitcoins?
The person who created it mined all of the first blocks and is sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars worth.
checks figures
Satoshi mined 7.5% of all bitcoins currently in existence so he could exert massive pressure on the exchange rates if he decided to dump a lot of that.
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why is this even news? I mean, why does anyone care who created bitcoins?
If it turned out to be an academic, who did the ground work and research during work hours on work machines... i.e. the original n coins were mined continuously for the first y time... perhaps on a Uni machine?
Then it opens all kinds of interesting boxes belonging to Pandora:
- Does the employer have a fair claim over the IP rights and any patents of the technology? YES!
- Does the employer have a fair claim over all of those generated bitcoins? YES!
- Would it impact the employees ability to continue in their research and teaching? YES!
Potentially, if this was real, the resultant legal cases that would arise and claims upon the unspent initially mined coins would be akin to an earthquake within a community. Especially if the original licence for the code was found to be invalid (granted without rights), and the core IP and ownership was with a private corporation.
There's a hell of a lot riding on Satoshi never coming forward, or being conveniently in a place (career wise) during those early days such that there is little to no impact on what has since been achieved.
- Does the employer have a fair claim over the IP rights and any patents of the technology? YES!
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On another note: why is this even news? I mean, why does anyone care who created bitcoins?
The tech is there, does it matter who wrote it? If they wanted to claim it they would've. Is it just the fact there's mystery and we like to solve mysteries or is there an important reason to find out? Taxman will probably love to know...