> It will be fascinating to see how this plays out.
The obvious way would be ambiguity about the final fate of his bitcoins, and centuries' worth of hacker legends about the lost treasure of the Dread Pirate Roberts.
> centuries' worth of hacker legends about the lost treasure of the Dread Pirate Roberts
It is amazing to think that in a few hundreds years, quite possibly, bitcoin/a bitcoin derivative could be the "global" currency, and this wallet could actually be a lost treasure among people. Sometimes it's easy to think we're just in the here and now, but we are making history, we're in the future's past.
It's also reasonable to believe that the cryptographic technologies upon which bitcoin depends will not withstand a few hundred years of technological advancement.
The obvious way would be ambiguity about the final fate of his bitcoins, and centuries' worth of hacker legends about the lost treasure of the Dread Pirate Roberts.