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.

  • @[email protected]English
    15•3 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]English
      4•3 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?

        • @[email protected]English
          1•3 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.

            • @[email protected]English
              1•3 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.