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RT @Rifo_01: @theo alright I've tried antigravity and I don't have a verdict yet as I kept getting usage limits at every prompt.
And he didn't need to say it. A meaningful chance of access to a percentage of his fortune will be motivation enough for the future to act.
Obvious answer: such a statement would have been *enormously* destructive to Bitcoin's future. "I invented Bitcoin for my own personal benefit," even if true, would have made it the equivalent of a meme coin. At that point in its lifecycle, it would have likely went to zero.
And he didn't need to say it. A meaningful chance of access to a percentage of his fortune will be motivation enough for the future to act.
Fun conspiracy theory: Hal Finney was Satoshi, and invented Bitcoin for his own personal benefit.
Cryonics companies make you pay for perpetual stasis, but not for revival, since there is no cost estimate. And no one knows that it will not be enormously expensive.
In fact this exact thing has happened many times (e.g. someone offering to pay someone to defend their preferred decision theory), while XOR blackmail has probably never happened once in the history of the world.
Newcomb-like situations happen frequently in real life. But so do "unfair" problems ("I will give you money if you follow my preferred decision theory, otherwise I will not.") Very common to treat people differently because they think you are one sort of person or another.