From: Steve Furlong <demonfighter@gmail.com>
   To: Bob Hettinga <hettinga@gmail.com>
   >On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Bob Hettinga <[1]hettinga@gmail.com>
   wrote:

   >> They're talking about offering bounties on anyone who touches
   Satoshi Nakamoto. Somewhere, Jim Bell is laughing…

   >Odd phrasing. Seems to imply Jim Bell is dead.

   >I dreamed I saw Jim Bell last night,
   >alive as you and me.

   Any reports of my demise are at least slightly in error.
   But, I have been laughing, a bit, about the Mt. Gox situation.  Seems
   to me that given that since somebody made off ("Made-off"..."Madoff";
   I sure wish I had been the first one to invent that joke)  with 6% of
   the existing (?) supply of Bitcoin, it ought to be awfully difficult
   for the thief to remain entirely unknown, at least given enough time.
   After all, it is well understood that Bitcoin is merely pseudonynous,
   not entirely anonymous.  Presuming the thief is eventually identified,
   I wouldn't be surprised if he (or she?) could be "convinced" to return
   the Bitcoin or what's left of it.  I would be in favor (of course) of
   withholding a portion of the recovered BTC to fund what amounts to an
   insurance fund to cover Bitcoin exchanges, but also Silk Road 2.0 and
   other systems.
           Jim Bell

References

   1. mailto:hettinga@gmail.com