Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to fix water system

Re:Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to f... by userbinator on Friday February 20, 2026 @12:58AM (#47084308)

My mind went to the founder of Bitcoin.

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Re:Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to f... by argee on Friday February 20, 2026 @01:09AM (#47084361)

The actual founder of Bitcoin cannot touch their money without causing a lot of panic in the market. I believe Coinbase's 2021 S-1 prospectus explicitly listed "the identification of Satoshi Nakamoto... or the transfer of Satoshi’s Bitcoins" as a business risk factor.

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Re:Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to f... by yreg on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:57AM (#47085456)

I would expect Satoshi to make a lot of money on later wallets that are not identified as theirs.

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Re:Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to f... by bparsons on Friday February 20, 2026 @01:17AM (#47084412)

Not sure why the NSA would pay for a Japanese water system.

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Re:Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to f... by Hamuko on Friday February 20, 2026 @01:20AM (#47084433)

To keep up the façade.

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Re:Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to f... by yreg on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:59AM (#47085466)

Then they should have funded some building preservation programmes instead.

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