[smilevideo]

Why would one use an untraceable pseudonym if there was a chance they'd want to come back and claim it was them all along?

[tim333]

If you are talking the real Satoshi, avoiding governments coming after you for aiding money laundering and the like and avoiding gangsters kidnapping you or loved ones for crypto ransom.

The real one has passwords and private keys if they need to claim stuff. He last popped up as Satoshi in 2014 to write "I am not Dorian Nakamoto" when that guy was getting hassled.

[scintill76]

I believe the 2014 message wasn't cryptographically proven (e.g. Satoshi's P2P Foundation account could have been hacked.)

[paxys]

When they used the untraceable pseudonym the Bitcoin market cap wasn't $1.4 trillion, for one.