>I caution against this action for the following reason.
>Those will be high-profile events.
>their goal will be to use the vast (and terrible) resources at their disposal to destroy and hide this VQC tool
Now, I actually think these are a little contradictory. It depends on our goals (more importantly, in my opinion, VQC's goals), but if we aim to make the VQC public knowledge, the perfect way would be through a massive shitstorm. If it's the goal to make the VQC public knowledge, cracking into the Satoshi wallets and mining the rest of the blockchain in one day would do exactly that, and there would be no way to stop it from becoming public. That would be exactly the kind of event that would guarantee the public would learn of the existence of the VQC without the possibility of diversion by the media.
Of course, I don't think it's a good idea for other reasons. Firstly, I would think the only way to do it would be to take all of this huge mass of bitcoins and then not do anything with them. If anyone tried to cash them in for money, obviously they would be mobbed with publicity. Not to mention, that kind of money very easily corrupts people. Just leave this ridiculous scenario of a bitcoin wallet overflowing with bitcoins without actually doing anything with them as a public testament to the ridiculousness of it all. Secondly, and also in regards to your lost wallet idea, while that actually sounds like a brilliant way to fund the rest of this, keep in mind, there are anons lurking. While you can go through the threads and get a list of regular contributors together, and then distribute large sums of cash around to the people who still contribute, there are going to be people who feel entitled to this money. This is where fighting, manipulation and sabotage come into play. It's a dangerous thing. If we try to use this with lost wallets for a long period of time, like you said, and someone isn't getting a cut, what's stopping them from ruining our funding plans and getting the lost Satoshi wallets just to fuck it all up? Not to mention, it's going to be public by then, so anyone else could do the same thing.
Personally, while I think that idea could be very useful, and I can't predict the future, I'm holding out for this thing VQC briefly mentioned a couple months ago. He said he wanted to start a company making futuristic tech. I don't know how he plans on funding it if he isn't going after this money, but if it'll provide a viable and stable source of income, I would be part of that. I couldn't agree more about your motivations for the lost wallet idea, and if there's one main thing keeping me here it's the fact that we've all been given an extremely unique opportunity to change the world for the better, so I feel like it's a responsibility at this point to stick with it since there are so few of us. Not to mention, it would give me the funding and the free time to pursue music full time. That's the only selfish reason I have for being here, as far as I can tell.
>Steven Grier
This is just speculation, but if you've seen the end of Undisclosed, he had an interview with John Podesta, talking as if voting for Hillary would have led to disclosure (yeah fucking right). I definitely don't think he's a bullshit artist, but I don't know how helpful sending him a bunch of money would actually be if he has the ability to get someone as heavily cabal as John Podesta to be in his movie talking about UFO disclosure, you know?