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Australian Police Storm Home Of Outed Bitcoin "Founder"
On Tuesday, Wired and Gizmodo revealed the identity of the man they say is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin.
Although they stop short of saying that the “trove” of evidence obtained from Gwern Branwen (another pseudonym), an independent security researcher and dark web analyst is conclusive, they seem all but certain that Nakamoto is actually a 44-year-old Australian named Craig Steven Wright.
In the world of bitcoin enthusiasts Wright was, until yesterday anyway, a “nobody.” When he spoke via Skype at the Bitcoin Investor’s Conference in Las Vegas, the moderator had to ask him who he was.
Branwen allegedly began receiving leaked documents from a source close to Nakamoto last month - he then passed along the information to Wired. According to Wired’s detailed account, the documents immediately led to several direct, publicly visible connections between Nakamoto and Wright. Here they are:
- An August 2008 post on Wright’s blog, months before the November 2008 introduction of the bitcoin whitepaper on a cryptography mailing list. It mentions his intention to release a “cryptocurrency paper,” and references “triple entry accounting,” the title of a 2005 paper by financial cryptographer Ian Grigg that outlines several bitcoin-like ideas.
- A post on the same blog from November, 2008. It includes a request that readers who want to get in touch encrypt their messages to him using a PGP public key apparently linked to Satoshi Nakamoto. A PGP key is a unique string of characters that allows a user of that encryption software to receive encrypted messages. This one, when checked against the database of the MIT server where it was stored, is associated with the email address satoshin@vistomail.com, an email address very similar to the satoshi@vistomail.com address Nakamoto used to send the whitepaper introducing bitcoin to a cryptography mailing list.
- An archived copy of a now-deleted blog post from Wright dated January 10, 2009, which reads: “The Beta of Bitcoin is live tomorrow. This is decentralized… We try until it works.” (The post was dated January 10, 2009, a day after Bitcoin’s official launch on January 9th of that year. But if Wright, living in Eastern Australia, posted it after midnight his time on the night of the 9th, that would have still been before bitcoin’s launch at 3pm EST on the 9th.) That post was later replaced with the rather cryptic text “Bitcoin – AKA bloody nosey you be…It does always surprise me how at times the best place to hide [is] right in the open.” Sometime after October of this year, it was deleted entirely.
Of course this isn't the first time Nakamoto has been "found" and we'll leave it to readers to review the Wired piece and evaluate the evidence in its entirety, but it seems fairly clear that Wired managed to convince the Australian Federal Police because on Wednesday, they broke into what Reuters describes as "a modest brick house in the leafy middle class suburb of Gordon" in an apparent raid on Wright's property.
"Locksmiths broke open the door of the property, in a suburb on Sydney's north shore," Reuters writes, adding that "when asked what they were doing, one officer told a reporter they were 'clearing the house.'"
"More than 10 police personnel arrived at the house in the Sydney suburb of Gordon at about 1.30pm. Two police staff wearing white gloves could be seen from the street searching the cupboards and surfaces of the garage. At least three more were seen from the front door," The Guardian adds.
Authorities then proceeded to "clear" Wright's businesses as well. Again, from Reuters: "A reporter who approached an office listed as the location of two of Wright's registered businesses, DeMorgan Ltd and Panopticrypt Pty Ltd, in another Sydney suburb, was turned away by police with one officer saying: 'There's an operation going on at the moment, I can't answer any questions.'"
Yes "an operation" was going on and although you'd have to be completely naive to believe that the raids aren't connected with the revelation that Wright may be Nakamoto, that was the official line: "Officers' presence at Mr. Wright's property is not associated with the media reporting overnight about bitcoins".
Of course not - it's a complete coincidence.
As Reuters goes on to remind readers, "the treatment of bitcoin for tax purposes in Australia has been the subject of considerable debate [and] the ATO ruled in December 2014 that cryptocurrency should be considered an asset, rather than a currency, for capital gains tax purposes."
Police referred all inquiries to the Australian Tax Office, which in turn said it wouldn't comment due to legal confidentiality of individuals' tax affairs.
Wright lived at the home with his wife Ramona Watts, who landlord Gary Hayres described as “a lovely lady," "They didn’t seem bad," he added.
Amusingly, one neighbor said Wright had a nickname: "Cold fish Craig."
Gizmodo published a transcript of an interview Wright allegedly conducted with Australian Tax authorities (embedded below). "I did my best to try and hide the fact that I’ve been running bitcoin since 2009 but I think it’s getting – most – most – by the end of this half the world is going to bloody know," the document quotes Wright as saying.
As Gizmodo goes on to recount, "Wright appears to have been trying to persuade the Australian government to treat his Bitcoin holdings as currency, as opposed to an asset subject to greater taxation. Without this regulatory move, his business interests would be scuttled."
John Chesher, Wright’s accountant, who attended one of the ATO meetings told Gizmodo that he "may have" told autorities that Wright was in possession of a Satoshi-sized Bitcoin sum. For the uninitiated, a "Satoshi size sum" is rumored to be somewhere in the neighborhood of nine figures worth of the cryptocurrency.
So clearly, the idea that the raids and the revelations published by Wired and Gizmodo aren't related is patently absurd, but hey, it's the governement so what do you expect?
Regardless of whether Wright is Satoshi (and we wouldn't be entirely surprised to see this story fade away like those that came before it), the bottom line here seems to be that the Australian Tax authority thinks this is a guy who may be sitting on a rather sizeable fortune that isn't getting taxed "properly" and we all know what happens when the government thinks it might not be getting its cut.
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Every cop hopes he finds that bitcoin locker stuffed with bitcoins.
Unfortunately, your honour, when I was on a fishing trip I had this terrible OP_RETURN accident involving my entire possession of bitcoins.
Why the fuck should law enforcement be invading the home of the man who invented bitcoin? What possible legal justification exists for such a thing?
None.
They beleive he is a tax evader.
Oh, well, as long as they "believe" he is a tax evader, they can just shoot him on sight, right? Why waste the effort to find evidence?
If he is Satoshi, and is sitting on 9 figures, his key is in one place only..
and they will have to water board him to try and get it.
For all they know, he lost his key in an unfortunate drink-alcohol-till-memory-loss incident.
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Alls I knows is - Coinhead is gonna blow a gasket.
Cue Bitcoin down the toilet flushing sound.
Even supposing tish was teh real "SATOSHI" how would tish effect Bitcoin whatsoever? If Henry Ford was jailed after making teh Model T, would all his cars suddenly have disappeared from teh road??
One bitcoin for you 19 for me....'cuz I'm the Taxman!
"would all his cars suddenly have disappeared from teh road"
It just so happens that cars are actual real things instead of 1's & 0's
You have a pretty 1st century AD concept of "real". Public school victim maybe?
“Cue Bitcoin down the toilet flushing sound.”
On the contrary..
If he is Satoshi with 9 figures and they finally get him to cough up the 4, 5 or so figures they want to steal in taxes...
It will do nothing but validate Bitcoin..
If it can be used to pay taxes, it’s money.
This time he's Australian. Last year he was Japanese.
http://nypost.com/2014/03/06/man-behind-bitcoins-revealed/
"He" is a NSA project
Its as real as you want it to be, all my coin are accessible via debit card. Please do step into the 21st century
For smoe reason BTC seems about 25% higher in CAD tahn USD?
Satoshi, is that you, or maybe MillionDollarBonus?
I'm guessing you don't own a single bit coin.....
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Either type in English or piss the fuck off. Your posts are hurting my eyeballs.
coinhead never pisses off!
^^^prefers the golden shower^^^
I heard he is also the Prime Minister of Narnia
OMG!! SATOSHI WE LOVE YOU!!!
You really need to see someone about your autism , man.
Actually, "Satoshi" is a middle aged white guy named Craig Steven Wright...whocouldaseenthatonecomin?...lmao!
LOL. So much for the anonymity and safety of bitcoin. Wright will be coughing up the key to his "wallet" almost instantaneously.
And as I told you propeller heads before his name isn't "Satoshi".
And lastly Mr. Wright has 9 figures worth of bitcoin, but no way this is a pyramid scheme, right?
Would it change matters for One small country to accept bitcoin as its National currency ?
Yes, it would fuck up teh entire world's monetary system.
So I just gotta know, are you trying to ponzi up BitShit or destroy it? You're doing one helluva job hurting "the brand".
Jus sayin.
Coinhead is representing Bitcoin in a mature, easy to read fashion for fans of BTC.
Bitcoin is going to 9 figures, bread is also going to 9 figures....
Let's play where's Waldo. First off the inventor of BitCoin wasn't white. Secondly he's been dead for a while.
The mob and the tax man always get their money.
Teh tax man is totally powerless against Bitcoin. You would almost have to try to get caught.
You say that like they are different things.
Ah, you finally said something that makes sense. For awhile, they (TPTB) have been shooting people "on sight", unless you have not been reading "news", lately. They (TPTB) could just make you "disappear". That has happened as well. Just look up what happened to "dissidents" in the forced disappearance of people in Argentina from 1976 thru 1983. It could happen in the USA (if it's not already happening).
And THATS the chinck in the impenetrable armor..
The gov will spend a million to make sure you pay 10K
Im curious, what's the tax consequence of stores selling goods?
When the SEC lawyers wake up and decide Bitcoin is a security...then black helicopters for sure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLU4B8L-ROc
Tehy don't have enough helicopters on Earth to do anything about it. Enough guns to destroy an idea whose time has come.
If the alleged inventor ob BitCoin can't keep his stash a secret from the govt. . .
He is not the inventor , looks like an elaborate HOAX.
There are similarities between this witch-hunt and that for The Dread Pirate Roberts.
I believe they knew who to look for based on comments made from his account, in reference to an online marketplace pre-dating the launch of Silk Road.
Prepare to be ButtCoined nerd! Every day in every way.
Fuck you. Buh Bitcoin!
https://localbitcoins.com
Indeed, I too thought they'd be going with the 'multiple self-inflicted pneumatic nailgun head wounds suicide by a person never known to have owned or operated a nailgun' on this one.
If he is the founder of bitcoin, he should have found himself a passport to some pacific island nation a long time ago, and quietly disappeared from western influence.
Believed his own hype. Didn't he.
Typical crypto nerd: https://xkcd.com/538/
At the very least, again supposing he is indeed Satoshi, he had no mental connection to the real world, he didn't realize how much TPTB would want to come after him.
Passport from Pacific Island = Australia (Pacific and Island nation),
living down a sleepy street....?
what am I missing, what gave him up then ?
Efforts at asset assigment and tax dodging.
Australia is not considered an island, it is considered a continent.
It is also effectively a U.S. vassal.
beg to differ, not trying to be an a-hole,
Q:Is Australia an island?
A:
Quick AnswerAustralia matches the definition of an island, as it is surrounded by water on all sides. However, Australia is more frequently referred to as a continent rather than as an island; it is one of the largest land masses on Earth, so it fits the definition of a continent
vassel, one of many.
cheers.
North America, South America and Africa are also surrounded by water on all sides. No one calls them islands.
All those you have named are connected to other landmasses.
I think using Antarctica would have been a better example.
Australia was referred to as a continent when I was at school all those eons ago but I have no idea today. Some solar bodies that used to be called planets are not anymore.
Scientists can be funny sometimes.
Code my friend code... Think.... They don't want his stinking money they want information.
What code? Bitcoin is open source.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
You mean his keys?
Tax fraud.
GIVE ME 40% OF YOUR FUCKIN MONEY! OR I FUCK YOU UP!
That's how they justify it. Legally,
nuubee (dude)........ it's like the Godfather, bitcoin holders are not "wetting the beak" of the Godfather. Surely you must understand the ways of the Mafia, correct? They want their "cut" of the action, is that not easy enough to understand? The "Mafia" has never, ever needed "legal justification". You can not be that fucking dumb.
Because government sucks balls
I am a bit confused here, I thought bitcoin was "secure, secret, untraceable, anti-government, anti-bank, "safe" curerncy"... How does the government have any knowledge, say so or visibility of what he does or does not have with this secret currency?
Every country has it's own internet listing rules.
All they need to do is trace all the bitcoin wallet sites.
Look for those who proceed to transactions.
Do that for a year.
And you've got almost all of them.
It's just to easy to catch a bitcoin looney
Rubbish. Your wallet is a private key , ie a code you can memorise or write down.
Yes, your key.
But what when all wallet sites are closed and those ATM vanish?
Do you know how long it takes a country to ban a site? A phonecall, a email and it's over.
They can shut it down whenever they want.
What then?
You're so dependend on the internet, which is the most controlled, spied on communication tool on this planet.
If I take my gold. Leave my phone home. Go into the forest. Dig a hole 1 meter deep.
They'd have a fucking harder time stealing my money then they will when they want to take yours.
What if Visa and Paypall block all transactions that are related to bitcoin and those very few ATM's close down?
You are so dependend on a system that still allows it. Eyes wide shut.
You don't need a wallet site. FFS do some research.
Grow a brain kid.
If you hold those kudos, you'll be toast.
You have it the wrong way around , holders of PM's have been getting toasted for 5 years ...
Was I talking about PM's? :)
Don't run away from the subject kid.
And to answer your question:
US$1124.76 was the Bitcoin high in 2013 and crashed back to 200 dollars.
It's about 400 now....
What do you call that? A minor adjustment?
AAAAaarrhh!! The pain!! A downvote!!!
You got me there bro!.... that only happened to me 12 million times... :)
Some may die, trying to hold their PM's, that is true. Some may die trying to take those very same PM's. It is known as Molon Labe. You, dumb fuck, will just die. I doubt seriously if you have the ability to protect your "bitcoins", but trust me on this.... if they wish to get your "key" , they will force that "key' out of you, or, you will die, in the process. In either case, your bitcoins will be lost in "space".
Teh people doing teh forcing are about is unintelligent as you guys. Good luck even knowing who has teh Bitcoins because unless you put a big neon flashing sign in front of your house saying "BITCOIN OWNER".......
Every time you use bitcoin to make a transaction, you expose yourself. Buying a car with bitcoin? Buying a house?
LOL.
That is the big neon flashing sign in front of your house saying "BITCOIN OWNER".
You do realize bitcoin was created to be a computergame currency right?
Or didn't you do your research?
Yeah and the internet was created just for email ...
You mean porn. That was the killer app.
No you dumb fuck, the internet was created as a
way to enable information sharing amongst defense department computers.
Long before the web there were things like gopher
sites and if you wanted to send an email from site A to site B you had to know the path for it to go there.
Average Joe or Jane had no chance of sending an email even if they had such access.
Now go back to repairing those 8-track tape drives and leave technology to those who actually have a clue.
current market price for 'computer game' currency bitcoin 418 dollars .... perhaps some people do have a clue ? My advice - get out and buy yourself 0.01 bitcoin before your totally broke.
I can't believe how poorly informed folks are about Bitcoin....
I'm here to provide a layman answer to anyone with a reasonable question.
Was it your mommy or your daddy who dropped you as a baby?
...and I am here to spam teh Shit out of anyone talking smack about Bitcoin.
That would be me!!!
:)
Me too.
Admitting you have the problem is the first step toward recovering from the problem.
I extend the same invitation.
Ah, yes, your "private key". You are a dumb fuck. You will give up "your key" once they start waterboarding your ass, or you will die trying to keep it "secret". Guaran-fucking-tee it. You think not, you are a fucking fool. God damn, you are soooo fucking dumb.
Yawn , so Einstein , with those tactics anything can be taken , including the location of your little 'boating accident'.
Try crossing a border or a checkpoint with a memorised private key. I think it would be far easier than doing it with PM.
Try turning you huge amount of Bitcoin back to government accepted fiat paper.
it never was, but it can be under certain precautions.
he was outed by other people, and then they just have to track down an identity
Its known as building street cred. to the government gangs that work with the street level gangs (ie. Corporations) to implement these schemes. Make a big public show about raiding some mysterious pseudonym boogeyman (ie. Al Quaeda, ISIS et al) that created Bitcoin (i.e terrorist network). Someone alleged to have created what the government really created (or paid this individual to create) to be able to replace cash and monitor everyone.
Once you raise the street cred. enough ban all cash that already had traceable magnetic strips in them forcing many to use a form of alleged currency that is far more efficient to monitor, track and control.
Voila. Sheep think their doing something untraceable and anonymous and have freedom. Government now in full control and laughing at them. Its all part of keeping the illusion of freedom and choice in place for the sheep while herding them towards the shearing pen.
Because they filed as they are legally required) a quarterly BAS (business activity statement) for GST paid on Services and Goods.
This shows your cash flows in and out, what your margin is and who you dealt with.
Government of Australia is your silent partner and collects taxes @10% on your business activity. They also collect Capital gains tax, income tax, stamp duties, exises and payroll tax. Yet this silent partner never works at the business nor do they stump up any capital.
Fucking good to be King hey
"I am a bit confused here, I thought bitcoin was "secure, secret, untraceable, anti-government, anti-bank, "safe" curerncy"."
My guess is that they consider him "aiding & abetting" Criminal activity. They will like prosecute him to make an an example of him. As far as bitcoin, its likely to fall over the next few years. Too many people got burned (ie Mt Gox, or other Bitcoin Banking establishments).
Yeah look how many people quit using cash after this major heist. doh.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/feds-charge-mobster-1978-l...
Every transaction is made to a public ledger that is pseudanonymous (see here: https://blockchain.info/tx/d3c4f90bbc90a62e286005684685d2ca06e7b47a4714b... ) that is very easy to be completely transparent about and hard to be completely anononymous but there are ways.
Mycelium entropy paper wallet and Trezor hardware wallets are great tools. I think it is more like PM's where it would take a lot of effort or impossible (brain wallet) to confiscate that would overwhelm the state if they tried to control it in any meaniful way and if they did conclude that it is you that controls the bitcoin its going to be difficult to prove that you do know or possess the private key to make a transaction. Going after the supposed founder (I don't think its him or only him by the way) makes sense because it could be a big heist with little effort and could be used to discredit it before more people consider bitcoin's merits.
It's about YI high and HA wide
So they can steal as much as possible.
Well we all know whats next, time for bitcoiners to withdraw all their bitcoins and uh, you know, put them in a place where, uh...nevermind. Maybe they can buh sum GLD with them.
Already can buy PM's with btc at Amagi metals and Vultoro...I can't wait for the day when I take in gold/silver savings to a local dealer and exchange them for btc so I can do some online shopping and completely exit the traditional banking system. Then get paid in btc and take that to the same PM dealer and buy back some gold/silver for savings.
How long until the Australian tax boys start dumping a Satoshi load on the market?
Wait a minute wasn't all of this decentralized illusions supposed to stop the government?
And if the banks fear Bitcoin why is Blythe Masters at Digital Asset Holdings in Tel Aviv? And Citigroup and JP Morgan trying to make their own?
And what was all of that stuff at the back of the Bible about that mark of the beast?
I wonder if another method to debase/discredit BC is to start renditioning public holders: e.g. the govt. "discoveres" some link between BC and terrorists and the next thing you know, the Winklevoss twins get their assets seized and a one-way ticket to Guantanamo.
Put Blythe on the same shipping list.
They are experimenting with private "blockchains" that they can control for obvious reasons. These private blockchains are pretty pointless and only create a fancy new database system while the Overstock CEO ( http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-24/overstock-holds-3-months-food-1... now first to market with an asset trading platform is creating a platform that uses bitcoin's open, trusless, public ledger to execute the exchange of assets which just got SEC approval to go ahead (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/sec-approves-overstock-com-s-filing... )
AKA fonestar
Too bad his middle name isn't Wayne :)
Call Geraldo in to open the safe.
It won't be hard to get him ( the Dude) to open the "bitcoin" safe. It's called waterboarding, and he won't last too long..... or he'll die. In either case the "bitcoin" wealth will be gone, forever.
Ha ha. This is the greatest comedy ever written.
PAGING THE FONESTAR BRIGADE!!!!
Satoshi even rents. Smart guy.
Well, he did scam thousands of idiots who think it's a good investment...
that's what cracks me up. some jerkoff in australia has nine figures worth that he conjured out of thin air just like the fed. lmao.
Gee whiz....wonder if there will be enough "evidence" to shut it down completely.....you know, for a "safer" alternative Crypto-Currency thrigh a trusted Banker....
Thats some impenetrable block-chain-link fence around that Aussie's yard..
If this is really the legendary Satohsi, how many bits of code will one wager that he can keep his mouth shut?
Turn over that paper wallet – now!
When a few get something for nothing the rest will inevitably get nothing for something.
Stop falling for digital illusions of wealth.
Invest in real skills, real friends and real wealth.
Hey Chris , that vid. you did about bitcoin being a ponzi and going to zero years ago was well worth the watch,
The guy who created BitCon from mere electrons happens to have "nine figures"--at least $100M worth. Yeah, this is no ponzi; perfectly legitimate.
thats the same as saying the internet didn't take any skill to create or is not worth anything when it enabled billions of people to freely express themselves and bitcoin (or some other digital currency) will enable billions of people to have true financial freedom to send money where and when they want and to start a business with only needing a $20 smart phone and an internet connection. The internet now has a financial protocol that is going to dramatically change the opportunites for billions of people to control their lives and rely less on government. Openbazzar is the first online decentralized, uncensorable marketplace that is hopefully going to launch in a few weeks (https://openbazaar.org/)
Patsy
400 million...lol...suckers.
Price is still going up .. suckers ..
The price...in what? ;-)
yaya..If I had a business competitor ..or a jealous spouse or sumpin'-I'd let the "authorities" know he/she was Satoshi-and sit down with a box of popcorn.
In prison sentence years.
He made a mistake. How the world works is you create the technology and then sell to a JPM type entity. That is not how we want the world to work. Once adopted you can then guide the world a 1/2 a degree in the direction you feel it should go. Now JPM just doing there own version anyways and this Fonestar gets the steel pagoda. Inclusive systems are the only ones where you probabky wont get stomped by competition. It isnt a fair world, we can only do our best to add value incrementally.
Or subtract depending on the Worldview, eh.
I thought assets are not taxed until they are sold... and then the tax is on the capital gains, short-term or long. Is that not the way it is in Oz?
What exactly is the criminal charge that would require 10 loyal public servants?
Future crime.
They're gonna make him cash some in, you know for the greater good. Since bitcoin is used by terrorists and such.
They've known it was him for years.
Oh and Bitcoin IS centralised. Only those who don't believe in causality think it's decentralised.
Taxation is slavery.
I don't know Aussie law but, failure to register a business, failure to file tax records for the business, conducting a business without a license. Who knows.
the ponzie masters don't like competition
This Australian was thrown to the wolves while the real founder continues to live quietly in Basel. He's the guy who looks like a homeless person but gives great tips at the coffee house.
Yep, orchestrated. Internationally.
This guy is a bigger threat to the System than Edward Snowden.
Wher's coinhead? How can they catch Satoshi-san, he is gawd? How can they know how many bitcoins he has, it is untraceable? I am so confused. Maybe the Chines hackers dropped a dime on his ass to the Ozzie cops.
Aussies just tied Satoshi's bitcoin kangaroo down, lubed it up with Marmite, and took it for a long ride down a short road.
How could such a smart guy set up shop in a former Crown penal colony ?
Them Aussie legal bureaucrats learned their shit from the best crooks in the business - for a couple of centuries worth of apprenticeship.
Just was asking to be a muppet, and get fleeced. .
I think he said he's working on publishing more papers and has a top 15 supercomputer powered by cheap Icelandic geothermal electricity. He called it 'tulip' and boasted having more computing power than the Bluffdale NSA site. Interesting. Maybe he's setting up a computer to 51% attack all upstart competing currencies? Makes sense.
Here is the Las Vegas presentation, http://bitcoininvestor.com/index.php/videos/
All-Star Panel: Ed Moy, Joseph VaughnPerling, Trace Mayer, Nick Szabo, Dr. Craig Wright which by the way was an excellent "mindful" event
Gee that's disgusting, the guys invents something mavelous like Bitcoin, only to be raided by the police. I thought Australian Police had better morals than that, something you would expect homeland security to do.
Police? Morality?
No, wait, I've got a great idea. The MORALITY POLICE!
What do you mean: it's already been done?
Well, when I posted about this last night after reading it on secret alternative financial media site MSN, the first question I had was how he "earned" 400,000,000 worth of bitcoins. I'm always suspicious about alleged do-gooders who do good by themselves first.
He bought them for a penny and now they are worth many $100s each.
NSA Coin... the government busting itself?
Why would someone worth that kind of coin be hanging out in a Sydney suburb? Why not set up residence on a large yatch moored in Monaco, or perhaps a nice quiet island in Polynesia? You would think a cryptocurrency genius would be a little more creative. What's the point of wealth if you can't enjoy it?
These euroPeons & Americans only know how to create free currency
when one fails create another
Then buy(loot) other's resources
for free
Free oil, free minerals , free goods, free services
free christmas gifts
let the asian boy slug out his sweat
Thanks, the article satisfies my prurient interest for another month.
Latest way to ruin your political enemy. Report him as being Satoshi Nakamoto.