The revelation could send shockwaves through cryptocurrency markets and beyond.

Intriguingly, as the date for the airing of the documentary has drawn near, a number of high-value wallets from the “Satoshi era” have become active for the first time since 2009.

    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 month ago

      True, it’s not private and has too low throughput for transactions per second to be used as day-to-day currency, but something like Monero intends to solve both of those things. There are actually people accepting Monero as a day-to-day currency and living off of it, including myself.

        • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Fair point. There’s a good chance somebody would have come up with the idea at some point, but Satoshi was the first to do so with the blockchain, which really did change everything.