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Founder of Silk Road could have been the 280th richest person in the world now
3 points by sixQuarks on Nov 29, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
He had amassed 600,000 bitcoins when he was arrested, worth about 6 billion dollars today. If he had kept going, he could have easily doubled that to 1.2 million bitcoin, getting him close to top 100 richest



Satoshi Nakamoto hasn't touched the account in years. There can be multiple reasons:

1. He's doing this for the good of the ecosystem

2. He values privacy over money

3. He's dead.

4. He's confined somewhere without access to the Internet, like prison.




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