Bitcoin is more about economics because it's what people discuss the most as they lack knowledge about many things. To institutional investor, they know Bitcoin as digital gold with limited supply that has demand, which makes the price to increase with time, that's all they discussed every day but if you look at the technical aspect of Bitcoin, you will literally want to run mad. I don't believe now Satoshi was able to do these things and make Bitcoin a successful asset, should call him alien than regular human
Bitcoin is created by Satoshi Nakamoto to solve many problems that are more than pure economic issues and it also solved many technical challenges that were failed to solve by many founders of other projects before Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin prehistory topic. Satoshi Nakamoto solved this challenge so well by his outstanding knowledge in economy and technology as well as cryptography. The Bitcoin founder does not only create a successful project, but he also makes a great legacy which initiates an entirely new industry, blockchain industry, that has changed the world in many aspects.