>Bulletproof protocols usually require peer review, yet there have been zero leaks from the reviewers.
Aside from leaking their identities (for reputational reasons) I am having a hard time thinking of anything these hypothetical reviewers would be motivated to leak. The best I can come up with is, "The main architect of Bitcoin hates the U.S. government, and his main motivation was to weaken it by depriving it of tax revenue."
As to why they are not leaking their identities: they run the risk of being kidnapped and tortured for their BTC if everyone knew who they were -- since (from the point of view of the average Bitcoin-literate thug) it is highly likely that those who got in on the ground floor of Bitcoin hold a lot of BTC.
Maybe I am wrong, but I get the impression that the average wealthy person keeps their most liquid assets in an institution where the employees know him or her and there are institutional safeguards against that kind of thing. (ADDED. ATMs for example, have cameras.)
Also, the rich do tend to make a point not to let it be publicly known that they are rich if they can. (ADDED. Officers of public corporations for example cannot hide their incomes from the public because of the financial-reporting requirements imposed on the corporations.)
There's plenty of movie plots about "leave a large suitcase full of cash at location X or bad thing Y happens" but I guess large quantities of cash are more difficult to hide and large withdrawls from a bank account would raise red flags.
Aside from leaking their identities (for reputational reasons) I am having a hard time thinking of anything these hypothetical reviewers would be motivated to leak. The best I can come up with is, "The main architect of Bitcoin hates the U.S. government, and his main motivation was to weaken it by depriving it of tax revenue."
As to why they are not leaking their identities: they run the risk of being kidnapped and tortured for their BTC if everyone knew who they were -- since (from the point of view of the average Bitcoin-literate thug) it is highly likely that those who got in on the ground floor of Bitcoin hold a lot of BTC.