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satoshi is probably the world first bitcoin billionaire

• ashleyn 9y ago
  Satoshi is a mysterious figure that could very well not exist. I heard theories ranging from CIA creation (which doesn't really make sense) to some secret libertarian industry consortium seeking to rebel against governments and regulations in the long term.
  • Shoothe 9y ago
    Occam's Razor would suggest it's Nick Szabo and Hal Finney.
  • adventured 9y ago
    CIA or NSA creation would make sense to prompt a radical acceleration in various technologies that are being used to mine the coins and in relation to crypto. It's going to accelerate the death of some crypto algorithms, which may speed up the ability of the NSA to unlock extremely vast troves of encrypted information they've stored but can't decrypt. When all else fails, open it up to the market to solve the problem, and provide a massive financial incentive to do so.
• shagmin 9y ago
  According to Wikipedia: "The public bitcoin transaction log shows that Nakamoto's known addresses contain roughly one million bitcoin. As of 28 November 2017, this is worth over $10,000,000,000."