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Bill Cohan

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228 total appearances

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Bankless
“Finding Satoshi”—How a Private Investigator Solved the Mystery of Bitcoin’s Creator | Bill Cohan & Tyler Maroney

Well, there's no guarantee that Bitcoin will be worth anything in 500 years.

Bankless
“Finding Satoshi”—How a Private Investigator Solved the Mystery of Bitcoin’s Creator | Bill Cohan & Tyler Maroney

It would be a total round trip back to the pennies that it was when it started.

Bankless
“Finding Satoshi”—How a Private Investigator Solved the Mystery of Bitcoin’s Creator | Bill Cohan & Tyler Maroney

Well, I mean, they talk about pure speculation because we never met either individual Bitcoin

Bankless
“Finding Satoshi”—How a Private Investigator Solved the Mystery of Bitcoin’s Creator | Bill Cohan & Tyler Maroney

I mean, I think that if you read the white paper, I think they thought that it was going to be much more disruptive to the fiat financial system than it's turned out to be.

Bankless
“Finding Satoshi”—How a Private Investigator Solved the Mystery of Bitcoin’s Creator | Bill Cohan & Tyler Maroney

And I think they thought it would probably be a useful currency by now, which obviously it has not really turned out to be.

Bankless
“Finding Satoshi”—How a Private Investigator Solved the Mystery of Bitcoin’s Creator | Bill Cohan & Tyler Maroney

So I think they would be blown away by the 77,000 or 72, whatever the 75,000 that each Bitcoin is worth today.

Bankless
“Finding Satoshi”—How a Private Investigator Solved the Mystery of Bitcoin’s Creator | Bill Cohan & Tyler Maroney

And, you know, at 125,000, even more blown away and probably be blown away by the stash that Michael Saylor has amassed.

Bankless
“Finding Satoshi”—How a Private Investigator Solved the Mystery of Bitcoin’s Creator | Bill Cohan & Tyler Maroney

And BlackRock too, right?

Bankless
“Finding Satoshi”—How a Private Investigator Solved the Mystery of Bitcoin’s Creator | Bill Cohan & Tyler Maroney

So through their ETFs.

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“Finding Satoshi”—How a Private Investigator Solved the Mystery of Bitcoin’s Creator | Bill Cohan & Tyler Maroney

But I think we'd probably be disappointed that some of the basic ideas that were put forth in that white paper remain unrealized.

Bankless
“Finding Satoshi”—How a Private Investigator Solved the Mystery of Bitcoin’s Creator | Bill Cohan & Tyler Maroney

Tyler, what do you think?

Bankless
“Finding Satoshi”—How a Private Investigator Solved the Mystery of Bitcoin’s Creator | Bill Cohan & Tyler Maroney

And it's not as decentralized as they hoped.

Bankless
“Finding Satoshi”—How a Private Investigator Solved the Mystery of Bitcoin’s Creator | Bill Cohan & Tyler Maroney

I mean, it's quite concentrated among a few big players.

Bankless
“Finding Satoshi”—How a Private Investigator Solved the Mystery of Bitcoin’s Creator | Bill Cohan & Tyler Maroney

Thank you for having us.

Pivot
Trump's Venezuela Oil Gambit, ICE Shooting Fallout, and Warner Bros. Says No (Again)

I did.

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Trump's Venezuela Oil Gambit, ICE Shooting Fallout, and Warner Bros. Says No (Again)

I was like, are we talking business?

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Trump's Venezuela Oil Gambit, ICE Shooting Fallout, and Warner Bros. Says No (Again)

Yeah.

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Trump's Venezuela Oil Gambit, ICE Shooting Fallout, and Warner Bros. Says No (Again)

So I'm sure Scott's fine.

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Trump's Venezuela Oil Gambit, ICE Shooting Fallout, and Warner Bros. Says No (Again)

I didn't do anything to him at all.

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Trump's Venezuela Oil Gambit, ICE Shooting Fallout, and Warner Bros. Says No (Again)

Only lesbians can say that.