Interesting, I didn’t see this but I heard about bitcoin in 2009, and bought my bitcoins in 2010 and 2011 just for the fun of it, worth every bit as I still hold them.
…shame I didn’t invest my entire life’s savings.
The question is: what’s worth very little now that will be worth millions in ten years? Presumably at any given point in time there exist such things.
Emperors, clothes, and all.
I presume that bitcoin is now worth millions of dollars (at the very least)?
The point being made is that once a wallet is connected to a real identity (as opposed to just knowing that wallet X has Y amount of BTC), the attack surface for that wallet is increased by magnitudes and entire vectors of attack are opened up (e.g. phishing).
I know for a fact he only sold 2 of those since then.
Now here's the interesting fact: he wasn't early into Bitcoin because of the technology, but because he was a full blown lunatic crypto anarchist. The guy literally works at some low paying job and has a normal life and lives dreaming about a world where Bitcoin's a common way to trade goods.
Seriously, he's easily worth hundreds of millions since years and he lives like a normal dude and spends his time just blogging and being a bitcoin evangelist.
Maybe I'm just reading it this way, but it seems like you are implying that this is a negative and I'm really not sure why a millionaire living like a normal dude could possibly be considered negative.
I actually like him for that.
What I inherently dislike is anarcho-capitalism of which he's a huge supporter.