True, to a degree, but day-to-day living still requires normal currency. Cash out $1M USD and you'd be comfortable to do whatever you liked for quite some time, while still keeping 99% of his coins.

> This is Satoshi we're talking about

I'm used to cult of personality on HN, but cult of anonymity is a novel thing! Who is Satoshi, and why do you put so much trust in them? What if I told you that "Satoshi" was brilliant quant working on Wall St., who came up with a scheme to invent an asset, give it incredible unreasonable value, then cash out for that value in USD, all while spinning a clever narrative about decentralized cryptocurrency for a new world?

that's some powerful delusion.