The general consensus on MtGox heist (and most others happening recently) is that they were stolen bit small chunk, and hidden keeping them separated: whomever is behind it is has taken the habit to avoid detection, making that transaction an unlikely candidate (but it’s not absurd to think counter-psychology would…)
In addition to being a large amount, this appears to have been immobile for a more than two years. With the events of the past two years, it’s hard to believe anyone with that large sum has not handled them in any way. A likely explanation after yesterday supposed revelation on BitCoin’s presumed pseudonymous inventor, is that it is one of his personal wallets. Mining coins started as much easier computationally, and it appears one actor did a large chunk of that early on, earning him or her the largest stash of BitCoins.
I personally doubt it would be an under-assuming personality, and would rather consider some of the project more vocal early proponent, too happy to have a name with a discrete personality to match that could be used for a mysterious founder myth, and shed away the attention.
Of course that's just my gut reaction to human nature, but MtGox has looked more like panicked people who tucked up and were trying to double down than reacting to the shock of robbery. In particular the delusional documents that surfaced after the collapse look like the product of someone whose been riding the tiger not the resplane to a recent catastrophe.
Indeed. Hence my main point on HN for the last week: for a system that presumably requires no trust and has fully public transactions, BitCoin is surprisingly rife with spectacular heists, misinformations and contradictory speculations.
It is not ready for primetime at a structural level. Advocates need to stop trying to convince those who are already converts, and address problems and fears of non-participants.
In addition to being a large amount, this appears to have been immobile for a more than two years. With the events of the past two years, it’s hard to believe anyone with that large sum has not handled them in any way. A likely explanation after yesterday supposed revelation on BitCoin’s presumed pseudonymous inventor, is that it is one of his personal wallets. Mining coins started as much easier computationally, and it appears one actor did a large chunk of that early on, earning him or her the largest stash of BitCoins.
I personally doubt it would be an under-assuming personality, and would rather consider some of the project more vocal early proponent, too happy to have a name with a discrete personality to match that could be used for a mysterious founder myth, and shed away the attention.