Founder of Silk Road could have been the 280th richest person in the world now

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He had amassed 600,000 bitcoins when he was arrested, worth about 6 billion dollars today. If he had kept going, he could have easily doubled that to 1.2 million bitcoin, getting him close to top 100 richest

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Satoshi Nakamoto hasn't touched the account in years. There can be multiple reasons:

1. He's doing this for the good of the ecosystem

2. He values privacy over money

3. He's dead.

4. He's confined somewhere without access to the Internet, like prison.

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