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Satoshi Nakamoto is the nom de plume for the CIA operative that created Bitcoin. 😁

@cryptographic 5 billion, or trillions? Upvoted. @gold84

What ticks me off is that people will keep losing their private keys.

So more and more BTC adresses will become unreachable.

In 50 years their will be a lot of BTC just sitting in the blockchain but could never be accessed again.

What about the dude who spilled soda on his laptop and fried his harddrive with 7500 BTC on it?

Certainly helps keep the supply in check if that is true...

Just a supposition on my part, but very plausible IMO.

I agree. Pretty tough to leave $5 billion on the table, no matter how much you like your privacy.

Five billion that didn’t cost him a cent. Withdrawing any of it would hurt his coin (and I’m sure his pre-mining wallet isn’t the only bitcoin Sat

imagine , in some future , there will be pirates trying to find the lost bitcoins preserved in some hard disk, in some remote island. up voted @ cryptographic

more like treasure hunters i would say.