Comment by rtkwe
7 days ago
It is certainly odd there's been nothing from the inventors not even using the vast wealth they have squirreled away. The alternative which is honestly kind of funny is that they lost their keys so can't access the coins and thus coming forward as the inventor would just put a target on their back for people who might want to steal their keys.
Lost keys is the most probable explanation, considering it was near worthless for a good chunk of its start. They likely didn't have backups or shrugged and moved on.
I like this idea. They should’ve been able to do some decent mining early on after losing the keys and make money.
Depends a lot on when and how the keys were lost. If the creator(s) were sitting on it thinking they had this cache there's not much reason to mine so if they lost it later, say after home mining with single GPUs became woefully inefficient and ASIC farms ruled the roost it could have been out of economic reach to actually mine. Or they didn't realize for a while that they had lost the original keys, eg they forgot their passphrase or went to access the drive with the key on it and it has died or disappeared (lost in a move or something). There's also the off chance that they were simply pretty old and died before it really went crazy and their survivors just don't know that gramp's old flash drive actually had a fortune in coins on it.