| ▲ | schiffern 5 hours ago |
| I realize there's near zero probability, but the mention of mysterious Japanese gold made my mind immediately go to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashita%27s_gold |
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| ▲ | quote 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| There‘s also the Awa Maru: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Awa_Maru |
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| ▲ | idontwantthis 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I didn’t know the gold in cryptomomicon was inspired by a real thing! |
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| ▲ | userbinator 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| My mind went to the founder of Bitcoin. |
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| ▲ | argee 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The actual founder of Bitcoin cannot touch their money without causing a lot of panic in the market. I believe Coinbase's 2021 S-1 prospectus explicitly listed "the identification of Satoshi Nakamoto... or the transfer of Satoshi’s Bitcoins" as a business risk factor. | | |
| ▲ | yreg an hour ago | parent [-] | | I would expect Satoshi to make a lot of money on later wallets that are not identified as theirs. |
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| ▲ | bparsons 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not sure why the NSA would pay for a Japanese water system. | | |
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