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As unlikely as traction to Bitcoin was/is, surely he would have understood the implications it could have to the practitioner of this idea? "bitcoins can not be manipulated by governments or financial institutions and bitcoin transactions occur directly between two parties without a middleman." If he figured that he could make it functionally work with Bit Gold, why would you expose yourself to that.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20091129231620/http://sourceforg...

[finite_jest]

There is a counterargument to that: Craig Wright. He openly claims to be Satoshi (almost certainly fraudulently), and he seems to be doing kinda OK. [1]

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/06/miami-jury-rules-in-favor-of...

[robocat]

That argument is nonsense because:

1. It is post factual - it couldn't have been predicted beforehand.

2. Craig Wright would only be attacked by those that believe Craig is Satoshi. That could be a very small subset of those who would want to attack Satoshi.