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Re:Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated aft... by AdamJacobMuller on Friday July 04, 2025 @10:59PM (#44469808)
Perhaps plausible until you mention that they hired a team to build it.

There's no way, even if it was a single-digit number of people team that they would remain silent. If it was just Elon/Thiel I could perhaps believe it.

Also keep in mind that there were some very desperate years for Elon where his companies were extremely close to bankruptcy, wouldn't he have tapped into that bitcoin if he had access to it?

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Re:Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated aft... by PUSH_AX on Saturday July 05, 2025 @01:57AM (#44470387)
Because Elon is so humble…
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Re:Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated aft... by DoesntMatter22 on Saturday July 05, 2025 @02:20AM (#44470491)
Seems fairly humble to me in that he's always thanking the team and giving them most of the credit.
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Re:Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated aft... by quinndexter on Saturday July 05, 2025 @03:59AM (#44470926)
The definition of humility is not "doing the bare minimum."
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Re:Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated aft... by DoesntMatter22 on Saturday July 05, 2025 @11:38AM (#44473492)
Can you name me a self made billionaire who is more humble?
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Re:Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated aft... by fennecbutt on Sunday July 06, 2025 @09:10PM (#44485721)
Why would a humble billionaire pretend to be #1 in poe2 and then hire a team to run his pretend account, that's not humility that's deceit.

Stop glazing him sheesh.

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Re:Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated aft... by DoesntMatter22 on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @06:14AM (#44498654)
I don't know anything about poe2 so I can't comment on that.
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Re:Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated aft... by pyman on Saturday July 05, 2025 @03:40AM (#44470835)
> wouldn't he have tapped into that bitcoin if he had access to it?

That's not how business works. You borrow, then borrow some more, and focus on having a long term plan to cover the interest, so you don't upset the banks or end up broke again.

Doesn't Elon sell Bitcoin whenever he needs a few hundred million these days?

The fact that we don't understand how someone could've come up with something like PayPal or Bitcoin might be exactly why Elon and Peter are the richest people on the planet.

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