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Bill Cohan

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228 total appearances

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

So, look, I mean, each Hal and Len, I mean, Hal obviously had a tragically debilitating diseases.

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

you know, even a conspiracy theorist can't devise a reason how you would get that.

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

You can't, you can't like eat a plant and get it.

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

You can't be, you know, shot up with a virus, you know, or like how, you know, the Russians poison people.

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

I mean, you know, that can't happen.

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

And Len, you know, Tyler would know better, I guess.

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

But, you know, Len had a very complicated person and, you know, a lot of issues, I guess.

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

So.

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

Yeah.

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

I mean, the stakes were pretty low when Len committed suicide.

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

I mean.

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

Yeah.

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

Well, when you're when you're limiting the supply, right, unlike fiat currency, especially dollar based fiat currency, which is unlimited supply, you got a printing press limiting the supply to 21 million implies that you have at least thought about it increasing in value.

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

And then, you know, don't forget, the white paper appears at, what, Halloween in 2008?

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

I mean, the financial system at that time was as discredited as it has ever been since probably 1929.

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

And so here's a new system.

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

non-fiat currency that emerges in a very sophisticated forum, this white paper with formulas and arguments about privacy and being able to do what you want with your money without a central authority.

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

I mean, that is itself very threatening, right?

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

So even if to the system, to the man, right?

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

You know, one of the most powerful aspects of our system is