WBTM on Nostr: Hal Finney's bet on #Bitcoin succeeding wasn’t as crazy as it might seem. With ...
Hal Finney's bet on #Bitcoin succeeding wasn’t as crazy as it might seem.
With global wealth ranging from $100 to $300 trillion and only #21million Bitcoins, even if the chance of Bitcoin taking off was slim, it wasn’t 100 million to 1 against.
But why did Hal say 20 million instead of 21?
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