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Mystery Bitcoin creator now one of richest people EVER with staggering $60billion stash Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter Apr 14 2021, 7:35 ET Updated: Apr 14 2021, 7:39 ET THE pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin is now one of the world's richest people. Based on their estimated holdings of the cryptocurrency, Satoshi Nakamoto is believed to be worth over $60billion (£44billion) today. 4 Bitcoin's founder may now be the 19th-wealthiest person aliveCredit: Alamy That would make them the 19th-wealthiest person alive, according to Forbes’ recently updated list of th...

The long history of digital currencies Finn Brunton [1] —Fernand Braudel The history of digital cash consists of scientific discoveries from the 1970s, hardware from the 1980s, and networks from the 1990s, shaped by theories from the previous three centuries and beliefs about the next ten thousand years. It speaks ancient ideas with a modern twang, as we might when we say “quid pro quo” or “shibboleth”: the sovereign right to issue money, the debasement of coinage, the symbolic stamp that transfers the rights to value from me to thee. Digital cash has the hovering, unsettled realn...