> Those millionaires and billionaires by and large do not have large piles of untraceable money sitting around.
Neither does Szabo. What Bitcoins he has are traceable and they are not just sitting around. The usual imagination is that someone would threat/torture and kill him and his family to get his keys, but that's extremely high profile and risky and works just as well for normally wealthy people. (Send your wife to take out one million dollars cash from the bank or I'll kill your children!)
> Satoshi, whoever he is, does have a large pile of what may be untraceable money though.
How would it be untraceable? Bitcoin, unlike cash, is very traceable.
Szabo's situation is not at all different from anybody else who is wealthy.
Neither does Szabo. What Bitcoins he has are traceable and they are not just sitting around. The usual imagination is that someone would threat/torture and kill him and his family to get his keys, but that's extremely high profile and risky and works just as well for normally wealthy people. (Send your wife to take out one million dollars cash from the bank or I'll kill your children!)
> Satoshi, whoever he is, does have a large pile of what may be untraceable money though.
How would it be untraceable? Bitcoin, unlike cash, is very traceable.
Szabo's situation is not at all different from anybody else who is wealthy.