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"map_content": "My dear fellow, \r\nThe truly comic part is not whether BTC is a Ponzi. It is.\r\nThe truly comic part is watching someone construct an entire argument upon a number he pulled from the financial equivalent of a s\u00e9ance.\r\n> \"Satoshi holds 1,096,361 bitcoins.\"\r\nHow delightful.\r\nThe anonymous creator has apparently remained hidden for nearly two decades, defeated intelligence agencies, journalists, academics, corporations, governments, and private investigators alike.\r\nYet somehow Barry from Crypto Twitter knows the exact contents of his wallet to the nearest coin.\r\nOne imagines him peering into the blockchain like an elderly fortune teller examining tea leaves.\r\n\"Yes... yes... the spirits reveal precisely 1,096,361...\"\r\nThe extraordinary thing is that nobody pauses to ask the obvious question.\r\nHow do you know?\r\nNot suspect.\r\nNot estimate.\r\nKnow.\r\nThe answer, of course, is that he doesn't.\r\nNobody does.\r\nThe number exists because a collection of analysts made assumptions about early mining patterns, clustered addresses together, and then other people repeated the estimate so often that it became holy scripture.\r\nA guess repeated a thousand times becomes \"common knowledge.\"\r\nA guess repeated ten thousand times becomes \"fact.\"\r\nA guess repeated a hundred thousand times becomes \"everyone knows.\"\r\nTwitter has elevated this process into a scientific method.\r\nThe post therefore boils down to:\r\n\"I know exactly how many coins an anonymous person controls despite not knowing who the anonymous person is.\"\r\nAt that point the discussion has already left economics and entered theology.\r\nThe rest is merely decoration.\r\nThe funniest thing about cryptocurrency culture is that people who claim to distrust authority will unquestioningly believe any number provided by another man with a profile picture and a blue tick.\r\nThe medieval church sold relics.\r\nCrypto Twitter sells certainty.\r\nThe business model is remarkably similar.",
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