[Cryptography] Proving a Negative (was MAybe he's Adam Back, maybe not)

[Peter Gutmann]

Nico Williams <nico at cryptonector.com> writes:

>Those early wallets that presumably belong to Satoshi might simply be as good
>as non-existent.

That's another thing that the graphologists seem to overlook, that at the time
the code was released it was someone's crypto hobby project, alongside a
hundred other crypto hobby projects by other people.  They had no idea it
would one day turn into the world's biggest pump-and-dump.  So they released
the code, moved on to something else, lost access to the early wallet(s) when
they took the computer the data was on to an e-cycling place, and after a
couple of years when it became obvious they had some value and also that the
majority of the people using Bitcoin at the time would have no problems with
removing body parts in order to gain access to more of it, decided to stay
anonymous.

Peter.