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Board Economics
Re: Satoshi Nakamoto should be richer than Bill Gates.
by
deisik
on 02/04/2017, 05:29:39 UTC
LOL literally everything you said makes zero sense.

1. To be fair, Bill Gates has done a lot more in terms of innovation than Satoshi Nakamoto, not to diminish Nakamoto's work.

2. Nobody knows how much money Satoshi has because nobody knows who he is.

3. He cannot generate infinite Bitcoin for himself, if he could, he would.

And what did Bill Gates do in terms of innovation?

His only genuine project was some crappy Basic interpreter which couldn't even compile programs (and I'm not sure how truly genuine it was). All his other projects were either outright stolen (like, for example, MS-DOS) or had nothing to do with innovation as such. Bill Gates and Co didn't invent anything on their own. They took networking from BSD TCP/IP stack of Berkeley fame, their NT kernel (so-called "New Technology") has roots in VMS systems of Digital fame, etc. In fact, I'm heavily inclined to think that Microsoft with their monopolization of desktop operating system market has greatly slowed innovation. Apart from that, it doesn't matter whether Satoshi is known or not, it is what he did what matters in the end, and Bitcoin is a real innovation by any metric. Whether it will be of great purpose and success eventually we can't say right now since it may take decades to come to any definite conclusion