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Bounties
From: Steve Furlong <[email protected]>
To: Bob Hettinga <[email protected]>
>On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Bob Hettinga <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> They're talking about offering bounties on anyone who touches Satoshi Nakamoto. Somewhere, Jim Bell is laughingâ?¦
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>Odd phrasing. Seems to imply Jim Bell is dead.
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>I dreamed I saw Jim Bell last night,
>alive as you and me.
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Any reports of my demise are at least slightly in error.
But, I have been laughing, a bit, about the Mt. Gox situation. Â Seems to me that given that since somebody made off ("Made-off"..."Madoff"; Â I sure wish I had been the first one to invent that joke) Â 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. Â After all, it is well understood that Bitcoin is merely pseudonynous, not entirely anonymous. Â 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. Â 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. Â
    Jim Bell
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