From: Steve Furlong <[email protected]>
To: Bob Hettinga <[email protected]>
>On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Bob Hettinga <[email protected]>wrote:
>> They're talking about offering bounties on anyone who touches Satoshi
>> Nakamoto. Somewhere, Jim Bell is laughing…
>Odd phrasing. Seems to imply Jim Bell is dead.
>I dreamed I saw Jim Bell last night,
>alive as you and me.
Any reports of my demise are at least slightly in error.
But, I have been laughing, a bit, about the Mt. Gox situation. Seems to me
that given that since somebody made off ("Made-off"..."Madoff"; I sure wish I
had been the first one to invent that joke) with 6% of the existing (?) supply
of Bitcoin, it ought to be awfully difficult for the thief to remain entirely
unknown, at least given enough time. After all, it is well understood that
Bitcoin is merely pseudonynous, not entirely anonymous. Presuming the thief is
eventually identified, I wouldn't be surprised if he (or she?) could be
"convinced" to return the Bitcoin or what's left of it. I would be in favor
(of course) of withholding a portion of the recovered BTC to fund what amounts
to an insurance fund to cover Bitcoin exchanges, but also Silk Road 2.0 and
other systems.
Jim Bell
