"There's a supposed IRC log from two days ago where he let it slip that he's under a gag order"
It isn't supposed you can go read the IRC transcript. He said no such thing. What did happen is, in response to the question of what would he like to tell everyone who is waiting for news he replied with a link to a image with a Batman quote about failure. The image happened to be hosted on an image sharing site called 9gag.com. People think that was his secret way of signaling that since the word "gag" was in the website's URL. It is a total ridiculous conspiracy theory to think that he is under some kind of gag order that is preventing him from telling the truth about what happened to the coins.
It isn't supposed you can go read the IRC transcript. He said no such thing. What did happen is, in response to the question of what would he like to tell everyone who is waiting for news he replied with a link to a image with a Batman quote about failure. The image happened to be hosted on an image sharing site called 9gag.com. People think that was his secret way of signaling that since the word "gag" was in the website's URL. It is a total ridiculous conspiracy theory to think that he is under some kind of gag order that is preventing him from telling the truth about what happened to the coins.