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Did any, or all three, of those individuals all of a sudden become wealthy over the past couple years? I imagine whoever created BTC is a multi-millionaire now
by jonny_eh 14y ago
Did any, or all three, of those individuals all of a sudden become wealthy over the past couple years? I imagine whoever created BTC is a multi-millionaire now due to having all the initial mined coins.
- jonknee 14y agoIf they were smart enough to stay anonymous this long, they are smart enough to not suddenly park a bentley in their parking spot at the office.
- maaku 14y agoThose initial coins have mostly not been used. You can verify that for yourself.
- shawabawa3 14y agoThis is actually one of the strangest things about it tbh. How can there be over 1 million unsold early adopter bitcoins? They can't all be lost and the people who held on to them through the $250 peak have some serious self-restraint
- pbhjpbhj 14y ago>"the people who held on to them" // Or person presumably?
- kragen 14y agoMaybe they're (a) not particularly interested in money and/or (b) waiting to see how the legal situation for Ⓑ turns out in another decade or so.
- DannyBee 14y agoWhy is this strange? The early clients did mining by default in the background, and per-block difficulty was very slow. It does not take very many people playing with it for a few weeks and throwing away wallets to get to 1 million lost bitcoins
- dsl 14y agoI read on bitcointalk.org (so take with a grain of salt) that a new wallet was used for the initial blocks, so there are 50 coins in each of ~40k wallets. It's entirely possible that early on they used throw away wallets while testing and the alleged $100m in "early coins" are all inaccessible.
- maaku 14y agoThe client uses a new address for each block.