"The British government had just bailed out the banking system 3 months earlier, in October of 2008, with a 500 billion-pound rescue package. The January 3rd headline was about a second round being needed because the first one had not worked."

"And 17 years later, the protocol still runs. The supply schedule has held exactly as designed. The cap of 21 million coins remains absolutely intact. Block zero still sits there with the Times headline embedded inside it, immutable on every node on Earth. The 50 coins from that first block still sit there too, permanently frozen. And this hundred billion dollars still sits untouched and addresses everyone can see and no one can move. "

"Today, at current prices, that pile of coins is worth somewhere over a hundred billion dollar. It would make Satoshi one of the wealthiest people on the planet. And those coins are sitting in known Bitcoin addresses on the public blockchain, traceable by literally anyone. And in 15 years, not a single one has ever moved. Not one. "

"Satoshi has had access to what is now 9, 10, 11 figures of personal wealth. He has never touched any of it. Never spent it. Never sold a single coin. Never even moved it to a different address. Just left it there frozen. "