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18 Years of Satoshi’s Paradox: Can Bitcoin Survive What Comes Next?
Bitcoin turns 18 today. Its founder is still missing, his presumed fortune is worth $85 billion, and AI is beginning to reconstruct how it all started. On October 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin whitepaper, proposing money that could move without a bank.
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Bitcoin marked its 18th anniversary while its founder remains unidentified and a presumed fortune of roughly 1.1 million BTC, worth about $85 billion at current prices, sits largely untouched. Satoshi Nakamoto published the whitepaper in October 2008, describing money that needed no bank, and ceased public posts in 2010. AI tools are examining Bitcoin's early history. Developer T4T5 used Anthropic's Claude to rebuild preserved 2009 Bitcoin software that matched the earlier file down to the last byte, although the launch-day program is still missing. Investor Chamath Palihapitiya has warned that Bitcoin could eventually be hacked. Researchers flagged that future AI advances might expose shortcuts threatening public keys, though no such attack exists yet.
Why it matters: The case shows how an unresolved founder question and new AI tools are shaping scrutiny of Bitcoin's security as the network ages.
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