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Card I-16: SATOSHI NAKAMOTO – Lost coins only make everyone else’s coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone.

Series I · Card 16 of 21 · SATOSHI’S MAILBOX

Lost coins only make everyone else’s coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone.

SATOSHI NAKAMOTO · BITCOINTALK · 21.06.2010

Turn it over, answer, sign – free, no account.

Source

BitcoinTalk, “Re: Dying bitcoins”, 21 June 2010

Open source · satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org ↗

About the author

Pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin. Published the whitepaper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” in 2008 and launched the network in 2009. Their identity remains unknown.

About the source

Bitcointalk: the forum Satoshi opened in November 2009 to talk about Bitcoin.

The question on the back

How often do you do something that helps others without them noticing?