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I do realize that, that's why I explicitly said the crypto community and not the bitcoin community. You misunderstand. And I would consider Satoshi's early acti
by throwaway82652 5y ago
I do realize that, that's why I explicitly said the crypto community and not the bitcoin community. You misunderstand. And I would consider Satoshi's early actions to be functionally the same as premining, and there are lots of other people besides Satoshi who got rich through the same actions. So I don't think you can actually say the bitcoin community is against it in practical terms either, otherwise they would have stopped using bitcoin or forked it long ago to remove the unearned wealth from the early miners. The fact is, they actually can't do that, because the super wealthy already control the bitcoin network, and the community does not.
>Satoshi may not have been a single person, may be dead, and anyway, it doesn't look like those coins will ever be spent
I hope you can also see how this is precarious and irresponsible of the bitcoin community to allow this situation to continue, you just have to hope that this anonymous and unaccountable billionaire (or group of billionaires) is dead or benevolent, because if they aren't they could seriously screw up the network.