[2017-10-20] Bitcoin’s latest record high makes Satoshi Nakamoto the 247th...

[Kanapka]

Bitcoin’s latest record high makes Satoshi Nakamoto the 247th richest person in the world

Bitcoin recorded a new high today, hitting $5,991 on the benchmark CoinDesk price index. On major exchanges like Bitfinex and Bitstamp, the price briefly crossed $6,000 intraday.

While bitcoin bulls celebrate yet another milestone for the cryptocurrency, there is one major beneficiary to what has essentially been a nine year-long rally: bitcoin’s inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto. The pseudonymous creator is estimated to own 980,000 bitcoins, amassed from mining the cryptocurrency in its early days. The stash has remained untouched for years.
What is that worth today? At $6,000 a coin, Satoshi would be worth $5.9 billion. That would put him/her/they at number 247 on Forbes’ list of the world’s richest people. Satoshi is just below Wal-Mart heiress Ann Walton Kroenke and Samsung scion Jay Lee; and above Alibaba’s Joseph Tsai and María Asunción Aramburuzabala, who inherited the Corona brewery fortune.
That’s a good return for writing a piece of nine-year-old, open-source software. And arguably, even $5.9 billion is too small a reward for inventing “magic internet money.”

https://qz.com/1107843/bitcoins-btc-new-record-price-of-6000-means-satoshi-nakamoto-is-worth-5-9-billion/

[fisheater]

So the creator has about 5%, which is not too bad as today's standard for premine, lol

[Siren]

So the creator has about 5%, which is not too bad as today's standard for premine, lol

I think Satoshi should have like 10%. 

However, the man is not interested on the fame and riches. And I'm sure that he doesn't give a f*** on what number he falls on that list. He can even surge to #1 but who cares really. I'm sure that if he is still alive, he is just a happy bunny seeing his invention transform and touch a lot of lives in making money and the economics of most people that have found bitcoin. Its truly once of the greatest invention of this century. Imagine just a ordinary people like me who can't have a decent savings, but today bitcoin has given me the the financial freedom to buy things I want which is not possible before.