Peter Todd has gone underground after an HBO documentary named him as the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, whose real identity has long remained a mystery.
You can’t torture the money away from most billionaires. Someone who has most of their wealth in Bitcoin theoretically could have that happen to them.
And after stealing the money, there’s not that much chance of getting caught, unlike if you just tried putting billions into your regular ass bank account.
Other billionaires also have security. The accused people who aren’t really Satoshi likely don’t have the means to properly protect themselves the same way.
Yea - Taylor Swift, as an example, has serious security around her due to her wealth and also the personal threats she’s received… that doesn’t come cheap.
Satoshi could liquidate 4.76% of all the bitcoins that will ever exist, that would wipe the crypto market and potentially bring the stock market along for a very bumpy ride, wipe a ton of money in pension funds and so on.
The fact that one person owns that much Bitcoin should worry anyone who is invested in it.
Yes but having billions in Bitcoin more closely resembles having billions in cash than billions in stocks / other assets which are harder to steal and get away with.
Ironically, that’s the kind of “issue” you need trustworthy banks for. The thing crypto was meant to replace. But none of the crypto exchanges that exist are trustworthy enough
Being labeled as Satoshi Nakamoto is basically a fucking death sentence due to how much money is on the line. It feels deeply irresponsible of HBO.
Very likely not him, and he’s like the 20th candidate whose been paraded by the news
Sorry, why is it a death sentence?
He potentially has billions of dollars in bitcoin
Bad people do bad things for big sums of money
But … there are other billionaires out there who are not going into hiding because they are billionaires.
You can’t torture the money away from most billionaires. Someone who has most of their wealth in Bitcoin theoretically could have that happen to them.
And after stealing the money, there’s not that much chance of getting caught, unlike if you just tried putting billions into your regular ass bank account.
Have you tried though?
I’d like to.
Other billionaires also have security. The accused people who aren’t really Satoshi likely don’t have the means to properly protect themselves the same way.
Yea - Taylor Swift, as an example, has serious security around her due to her wealth and also the personal threats she’s received… that doesn’t come cheap.
Satoshi could liquidate 4.76% of all the bitcoins that will ever exist, that would wipe the crypto market and potentially bring the stock market along for a very bumpy ride, wipe a ton of money in pension funds and so on.
The fact that one person owns that much Bitcoin should worry anyone who is invested in it.
Yes but having billions in Bitcoin more closely resembles having billions in cash than billions in stocks / other assets which are harder to steal and get away with.
Ironically, that’s the kind of “issue” you need trustworthy banks for. The thing crypto was meant to replace. But none of the crypto exchanges that exist are trustworthy enough
I still don’t understand why crypto exchanges exist is an unregulated, decentralized currency, wouldn’t an exchange remove part of those benefits?
yes!
Yup, if you robbed Elon Musk you’d just walk away with some IOUs that might be worth millions… and also billions in Twitter debt.
The actual Satoshi has billions in untraceable cash equivalents that already happen to be in a currency that drug lords like dealing in.