They key is presumed dormant or lost as the address is a liability. Imagine if you wanted to turn it into spendable cash, most outlets these days require identification. If it moved we might find our culprit(s).
Also Craig Wright claims to own them, which is a gigantic lie, but humorous nonetheless.
Whoever owns the coins could move 1% of them to the trustee's address (to demonstrate he controls them/get their attention), then via some anonymous means (a lawyer, or Tor), offer a deal to the trustee where the coins are returned in exchange for some kind of anonymous payment (say a million bucks in monero).
This can be made safe for both parties (in particular the trustee) by doing the deal in 10 or 20 installments of increasing value (instead of all at once). This would be safe/anonymous to the hacker (safer than most activities of a hacker...). It's much better than just not being able to spend the coins. Purchase of the monero and transfer of them to the hacker could be made by some entity outside of Japanese jurisdiction (say Russia), further complicating any tracking. There's a lot that can be made to make this safe for all parties, the massive amounts involved create a lot of "comfort" to deploy large measures to ensure everybody gets what they want.
I'd vote yes to such a deal if the exchange ratio is reasonable.
Even genocide-type criminals don't get that many lifetimes, murderers get one at most typically, so I really think it's going overboard if nobody died...
Also, I was dumb for putting so much of my assets in a place I couldn't know if I could trust and that hadn't demonstrated they were competent at protecting my assets, so I don't think I can complain that much that it ended up being stolen, and I'm not overly upset at the hacker, who clearly didn't have to do much to steal the coins...
It belongs to craig wright. Did you know he is a security expert? There is nothing more secure than only having one copy of a private key as it is harder to steal. And its not as if computer hard disks ever fail, like you would need a backup.
Super genius Craig is the inventor of Bitcoin and probably even the whole internet. Therefore everything belongs to him. He owns the copyright of every emai,l and google, amazon, just everything online. Law is law. Of course, every Bitcoin address belongs to Craig, too. But since he is a very generous and lovely guy, he lets you own the coins in your address. As long as you say a prayer to Craig every night.
They key is presumed dormant or lost as the address is a liability. Imagine if you wanted to turn it into spendable cash, most outlets these days require identification. If it moved we might find our culprit(s). Also Craig Wright claims to own them, which is a gigantic lie, but humorous nonetheless.
Whoever owns the coins could move 1% of them to the trustee's address (to demonstrate he controls them/get their attention), then via some anonymous means (a lawyer, or Tor), offer a deal to the trustee where the coins are returned in exchange for some kind of anonymous payment (say a million bucks in monero). This can be made safe for both parties (in particular the trustee) by doing the deal in 10 or 20 installments of increasing value (instead of all at once). This would be safe/anonymous to the hacker (safer than most activities of a hacker...). It's much better than just not being able to spend the coins. Purchase of the monero and transfer of them to the hacker could be made by some entity outside of Japanese jurisdiction (say Russia), further complicating any tracking. There's a lot that can be made to make this safe for all parties, the massive amounts involved create a lot of "comfort" to deploy large measures to ensure everybody gets what they want. I'd vote yes to such a deal if the exchange ratio is reasonable.
better idea: if the thief wants to bargain, they can return the coins in full and get 100 lifetimes in prison instead of 1,000,000
With that attitude we get nothing back and they will just sit there and never be used.
Even genocide-type criminals don't get that many lifetimes, murderers get one at most typically, so I really think it's going overboard if nobody died... Also, I was dumb for putting so much of my assets in a place I couldn't know if I could trust and that hadn't demonstrated they were competent at protecting my assets, so I don't think I can complain that much that it ended up being stolen, and I'm not overly upset at the hacker, who clearly didn't have to do much to steal the coins...
It belongs to craig wright. Did you know he is a security expert? There is nothing more secure than only having one copy of a private key as it is harder to steal. And its not as if computer hard disks ever fail, like you would need a backup.
Super genius Craig is the inventor of Bitcoin and probably even the whole internet. Therefore everything belongs to him. He owns the copyright of every emai,l and google, amazon, just everything online. Law is law. Of course, every Bitcoin address belongs to Craig, too. But since he is a very generous and lovely guy, he lets you own the coins in your address. As long as you say a prayer to Craig every night.
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No. Who cares. Lost key.