[diego]

Yes, 2014 in fact is when Hal Finney died, a few months after that post. He is perhaps the strongest candidate for Satoshi, and if so we'll probably never know.

[Tenoke]

It's also possible Satoshi gave Finney access to that email and more just in case there's something important enough, I guess.

[kragen]

Maybe if the cryonics thing works out, but that's a long shot.

[VectorLock]

Thats a serious sci-fi plot right there. Man cryonically freezes himself after inventing a cryptocurrency, wakes up in the far future the richest man in the world.

[shawnz]

Interesting to wonder if he simply memorized the keys before being frozen, hoping that he could remember them if he were ever resuscitated.

[fearthetelomere]

Guessing you haven't seen Futurama. Not the same exact plot of course, but I immediately thought of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fishful_of_Dollars

[VectorLock]

Yes I've seen that episode. The crypto/most wealthy man in the world thing would be a variation of that.

They'd also be the typical Human Popsicle tropes about how horrified he'd be by how his creation was used.

[kragen]

Bitcoin is already pretty freaking sci-fi-plottish.

[VectorLock]

The whole Satoshi mythology is to me one of the greatest modern mysteries.