Bitcoin’s Enigmatic Creator Nears Top 10 Wealthiest—Without Lifting a Finger

Satoshi Nakamoto’s untouched Bitcoin stash just flirted with a top-10 global net worth—proving you can still win capitalism by ghosting it.

The Lazarus Fortune

While Wall Street sweats over quarterly earnings, Bitcoin’s pseudonymous inventor watches their 1M+ BTC hoard appreciate like a dormant volcano. No board meetings, no SEC filings—just cryptographic proof of work paying off 16 years later.

Cold Storage, Hot Rankings

At current prices, those unmoved coins would dethrone Zuckerberg or LVMH’s Arnault. The ultimate HODL strategy? Becoming a billionaire by forgetting your passwords.

The Punchline

Meanwhile, hedge funds charging 2-and-20 fees just got outraced by a wallet that hasn’t signed a transaction since 2010. Nakamoto’s net worth is now a live counterargument to ‘active management.’

Satoshi's wallet, which got all its holdings from mining the network in its earliest days, has remained untouched since 2010. The network was still able to be run on a few laptops at the time.

None of the BTC has ever moved, sparking endless speculation about whether Nakamoto is dead, missing or simply committed to never interfering with the project again.

Unlike most billionaires, Satoshi didn’t build a company, pitch to VCs, or list anything on the stock market. And 16 years later, that quiet drop has helped spawn a $2.4 trillion network at current valuations.

Bitcoin notched a new all-time high this week, buoyed by renewed ETF inflows, inflation-hedge narratives, and persistent demand from institutions. While Satoshi’s fortune is theoretical — as none of it has been sold or verified as accessible — the valuation highlights just how far crypto has come since Satoshi's final forum post in 2011.