Puts anyone accused of being Satoshi at great risk.

When you win the lottery in the UK, they help you hide the wealth. Special bank accounts, advice on how to avoid other people finding out, that sort of thing. There is a risk of both crime and people coming to beg for money.

Were these sites not there before the internet?

It's so sad that so many countries have been threatened you need to ask that.

Americans have no protection over the government modifying their routers? Lol.. that's precious.

Anyone with a brain, having just invented a deliberately anonymous cryptocurrency that starts to take off, would NOT EVER touch the seed coins, especially once it became obvious that everyone was watching their movement.

The second that stuff moves, Bitcoin value tanks AND the ultimate destination of all those coins becomes international news. Hardly anonymous.

No, whoever they were, and for literally whatever reason they started the project, they would have created other additional accounts later on, capitalised on those, had no connection to the original accounts, and still be a billionaire now. But just one of hundreds / thousands of others that are all untraceable and not really being watched.

And when Bitcoin mixing services came out, they'd have been all over it - just to preserve anonymity if nothing else.

We know precisely one thing about Satoshi - and that's that they don't want to identify themselves. Maybe there is $138bn sitting in an account they could in theory get access to. But it would immediately reveal information about themselves that may well work against them - taxation authorities would be all over it, press, public, every penny would be traced to its final destinations, etc.

So even if they only had, say, a couple of million in another account... they'd use that. Not everyone wants to be a stupendous billionaire in the public eye. You have to be a bit of a sociopath to be a billionaire at all. And then think of things like security, press, public scrutiny, etc.

Maybe they've got enough to live a life of luxury, that they've properly declared, never have to work again and, ultimately... still stay absolutely anonymous.

The one thing we know is that they understand anonymity. Why on earth would we ever expect them to do the most stupid thing ever and reveal themselves, rather than just hide amongst a large crowd and enjoy the rest of their life?

Or maybe a 17e, that's kind of a "SE" position in the lineup.

Then maybe war shouldn't be started.

And you are American, enjoying the benefits of a government every day while thinking you don't want help.

No problem, I was happy with the SE in the past. I can always return to that line if the options are only "fold" or "pro" among the newer models.

You need to re-read. The question above is not "what if I still had my ICE car". The question above is "If the Democrats still ran the show". The point made was that current EV buyers have a net win without the EV rebate due to better energy policy which lowers the costs of everything fossil fuel delivered.

And it tasted like chicken.

So John "nothing scams like a" Deere gets to keep between 47% and 74% of their ill-gotten gains, minus legal fees which are undoubtedly a small fraction of their total take. Who says crime doesn't pay?

It's good news that they have to provide the digital tools. However, TFA says Deere must "make Repair Resources—which permit Deere Large Ag Equipment to be maintained, diagnosed, and repaired such that they can be operated in the manner for which they were designed—available to every Owner, Lessor, and IRP on a license or subscription basis on Fair and Reasonable Terms". I say "fuck that noise". Deere should be forced to provide those things free of charge as an additional punishment.

I'm getting sick and tired of all the corporate fuckery that lets the bastards steal from customers hand-over-fist, then give back a fraction of what they stole and call the matter settled. Fuck John Deere and the tractor they rode in on.

I'm sorry, but anyone who asks Epstein for antibiotics to treat their STD from sleeping with Epstein-provided prostitutes, also surreptitiously slipping some antibiotics to his wife in case he infected her, is someone I no longer give the benefit of the doubt to. Look at Bill Gates' shifty sly grin when he denounced having social ties to Epstein on a television interview. That shifty grin is the same grin he had in his mugshot when being arrested for a traffic violation as a young adult. He breaks the rules, smiles about it, and continues on with his narcissistic, malignant behavior. Stop glazing him, he won't glaze you back.

Quite the opposite, the trumpistan is now a major factor of instability and conflict, worse than even China and on par with the pootin territory.

Trumpistani is a subject of the trumpistan, a territory formerly known as USA.

A switch happened recently from a facade democracy to a weird open kleptocracy with some fundamentalist christianism thrown in for good measure.

Like the failed state of putin, trumpistan's most important ally and ideological twin, the latter is a failed state with a big surplus of arms left over for historical reasons, which are now used in dumb attempts to extract rent by force from all over the place, because the people who run this new feudal empire do not want to pay for it.

It is located right in the middle of the North American continent, squeezed between Canada and the Gulf of Mexico.

Hope this helps,