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I realize there's near zero probability, but the mention of mysterious Japanese gold made my mind immediately go to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashi
by schiffern 8mo ago
I realize there's near zero probability, but the mention of mysterious Japanese gold made my mind immediately go to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashita%27s_gold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashita%27s_gold
- userbinator 8mo agoMy mind went to the founder of Bitcoin.
- argee 8mo agoThe actual founder of Bitcoin cannot touch their money without causing a lot of panic in the market. I believe Coinbase's 2021 S-1 prospectus explicitly listed "the identification of Satoshi Nakamoto... or the transfer of Satoshi’s Bitcoins" as a business risk factor.
- yreg 8mo agoI would expect Satoshi to make a lot of money on later wallets that are not identified as theirs.
- bparsons 8mo agoNot sure why the NSA would pay for a Japanese water system.
- idontwantthis 8mo agoI didn’t know the gold in cryptomomicon was inspired by a real thing!
- quote 8mo agoThere‘s also the Awa Maru: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Awa_Maru https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Awa_Maru
- tmaly 8mo agoThere is a great book on this topic. My in-laws gave me a sword that supposedly had a map to one the gold locations. But today it is quite a bit of myth. I do believe the explorer did find a gold statue as there were pictures. But the rest of the claims of gold I am skeptical about. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson does a good fictional take on it.