Even if he gets rid of the money he's still Notch. Once you create something that has such a wide impact it is hard to be "normal" without fleeing to a part of the world not touched by whatever.

I'd literally never heard of "Notch" until five minutes ago, and I'm a techie who obsessively follows tech news, so there are obviously innumerable people who've never heard of his "wide impact" and couldn't care less about it -- there's no barrier whatsoever to him living a "normal" life.