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Re:Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space by eindiran on Thursday April 29, 2021 @12:15AM (#26977404)
> Bitcoin itself is a get rich quick scheme for its founders

Regardless of what you think about Bitcoin, this claim is completely ahistorical.

Re:Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space by creato on Thursday April 29, 2021 @12:36AM (#26977513)
Satoshi (or one of his friends) owns 5% of all bitcoins that will ever exist.

I wouldn't call it a get rich quick scheme for its founder(s) because I doubt they could have known it would take off the way it did.

But, at this point, I don't know that intent matters. Imagine if Bitcoin really did become a dominant currency... one guy would own 5% of it, a deflationary currency! The "fiat billionaires" don't come anywhere close to that kind of concentration of wealth.

Re:Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space by tnzm on Thursday April 29, 2021 @06:44AM (#26979498)
Doesn't he deserve it? If you were to launch a world-changing project at the cost of disappearing completely, wouldn't you want to reap some benefit from that project if it ever succeeds?
Re:Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space by Orochikaku on Thursday April 29, 2021 @12:41AM (#26977539)
'Satoshi' as far as we know is a fiction, it could very well be a psuedonym for an entire team of unknown size
Re:Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space by croon on Thursday April 29, 2021 @06:34AM (#26979433)
Doesn't matter, you can reduce it down to the wallet. (At least) someone has (or at least has at one point had) access to it.