I didn't plan on re-visiting this thread... don't feed the troll and all... But it keeps popping up in my "Show new replies to your posts" menu, eventough i had the OP on ignore.
After seeing he was able to draw this debate on for 10 pages, i un-ignored him and read his posts, just to see why people kept biting the bait.
Now, i'm trying to imagine what is going on in OP's mind, and based on many of his posts, i wonder if his mistake is thinking bitcoin relies on a relational database, and satoshi owns said database... Think of it as an anonymous paypal where users pay money to satoshi so he edits a user's record in his database to change the "content" of an "address" (which is a record in the relational database) from (for example) 0 to 1.
This might explain why he keeps telling us that bitcoin is just a number, and that it doesn't exist... If, in his mind, the bitcoin ledger is a mere centralized relational database that can be edited by the owner (and downloaded by the community), many of the things he says make sense....
@OP: if this is the case, the only thing i can say is that the bitcoin ledger is immutable (so nobody can change the ledger), decentralised (so nobody owns is) and trustless (you don't need to trust anybody to tell you how much BTC you own). Going into the technical aspects for you seems inprobable, since you don't seem to grasp basic technology, so there's no point in discussing cryptography, network setup, the merits of open source,... but it's not because you don't understand these things that they're not real...
I'm out again... back on ignore
After seeing he was able to draw this debate on for 10 pages, i un-ignored him and read his posts, just to see why people kept biting the bait.
Now, i'm trying to imagine what is going on in OP's mind, and based on many of his posts, i wonder if his mistake is thinking bitcoin relies on a relational database, and satoshi owns said database... Think of it as an anonymous paypal where users pay money to satoshi so he edits a user's record in his database to change the "content" of an "address" (which is a record in the relational database) from (for example) 0 to 1.
This might explain why he keeps telling us that bitcoin is just a number, and that it doesn't exist... If, in his mind, the bitcoin ledger is a mere centralized relational database that can be edited by the owner (and downloaded by the community), many of the things he says make sense....
@OP: if this is the case, the only thing i can say is that the bitcoin ledger is immutable (so nobody can change the ledger), decentralised (so nobody owns is) and trustless (you don't need to trust anybody to tell you how much BTC you own). Going into the technical aspects for you seems inprobable, since you don't seem to grasp basic technology, so there's no point in discussing cryptography, network setup, the merits of open source,... but it's not because you don't understand these things that they're not real...
I'm out again... back on ignore