Bitcoin's Hidden Message: Why Satoshi Walked Away From $100B

On Halloween 2008, while the global financial system was collapsing and banks were getting bailed out with taxpayer money, an anonymous figure posted a nine-page paper that would change everything. Two months later, Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first Bitcoin block and buried a newspaper headline inside it about bank bailouts - a permanent message encoded forever on every node on Earth. Then he mined over a million Bitcoin, watched it become worth over $100 billion, and never touched a single coin. This is the real origin story of Bitcoin, told the way it deserves to be told. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Bitcoin's Hidden Message: Why Satoshi Walked Away From $100B is an episode from The Wolf Of All Streets by Scott Melker.

This episode is 15:45 long.

This episode was published on May 30, 2026.

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