The revelation could send shockwaves through cryptocurrency markets and beyond.

Intriguingly, as the date for the airing of the documentary has drawn near, a number of high-value wallets from the “Satoshi era” have become active for the first time since 2009.

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1120·
    2 months ago

    I hope they either never find out who made it or the person who made it is dead and has lost their private keys somewhere where they can never ever be retrieved. Like, can you imagine the threat to your life that would occur if you were unmasked as Satoshi? Whoever the entity is deserves to be left alone. They did a great service for humanity, and humanity should respect them.

    • erwan@lemmy.mlEnglish
      142·
      2 months ago

      What service did they provide to humanity, one more speculative asset but that also contributes to global warming?

      • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
        413·
        2 months ago

        How about sound money that works at the speed of information, unlike gold, and can replace our banking system and all the fossil fuels needed to run it?

          • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
            14·
            2 months ago

            True, it’s not private and has too low throughput for transactions per second to be used as day-to-day currency, but something like Monero intends to solve both of those things. There are actually people accepting Monero as a day-to-day currency and living off of it, including myself.

              • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
                12·
                2 months ago

                Fair point. There’s a good chance somebody would have come up with the idea at some point, but Satoshi was the first to do so with the blockchain, which really did change everything.