Kathmandu. Bitcoin, the world’s oldest cryptocurrency, has reached $ 118,000. This year, its price has increased by more than 55 percent.
With this, Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto has become the 12th richest person in the world. Between January and July 2009, Nakamoto is believed to have earned more than one million bitcoins.
At current prices, Nakamoto owns $129 billion worth of bitcoin. According to this, he is the 12th richest person in the world. His net worth is more than That of Mukesh Ambani (109 billion), the richest man in India and Asia.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Elon Musk leads the list of richest with $360 billion. Nakamoto’s net worth is more than Microsoft founder Bill Gates ($123 billion). However, no one has ever seen Nakamoto.
Nakamoto released a bitcoin white paper in October 2008 under a public MIT license. Bitcoin’s first block was minted on January 3, 2009. With this, the bitcoin network was formally launched.
In 2010, renowned cryptocurrency researcher Sergio Damian Lerner published a research paper on Nakamoto’s Bitcoin Holdings. He says, “Nakamoto can have one million bitcoins. ’
Bitcoin is a type of cryptocurrency. ‘Crypto’ means ‘secret’. It is a digital currency. Which works on the basis of the rules of cryptography.
