JPMorgan Chase CEO: Sartasi will show up again and delete all Bitcoins

Source: Liu Jiaolian

A few days ago, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan, spoke again at the Davos Forum, publicly expressing his disdain for Bitcoin. , called it "pet rock".

He also questioned the 21 million upper limit of Bitcoin: "I think there's a good chance, when we get to that 20 million bitcoins...Satashi [sic] is going to come on there, laugh hysterically, go quiet, and all Bitcoins [are] going to be erased. How the hell [do] you know it's going to stop at 21?"

“I think it’s very possible that when we get 20 million Bitcoins...Satashi [sic] will be there , laughing hysterically, then quieting down, all Bitcoin [will be] wiped out. How do you know it will stop at 21 million?"

I have to say this The "cute" classmate has been there for more than a year, but his speaking skills and thoughts have remained in the same place.

He is quite imaginative. Satoshi shows up again and deletes all Bitcoins. This sounds very much like a fairy tale.

The mispronunciation of Satoshi (Satoshi Nakamoto) as Satashi (Satashi) is not known to be subconsciously associated with the devil "Satan" and the East German Security Department "Stasi" (Stasi) . Hahaha.

The problem of "cuteness" is not simple. Before many people enter Bitcoin, if they are serious, this may be one of the easiest questions to question - including Jiaolian himself. Ten years ago, I didn’t understand it either, because at that time, I only had experience with centralized systems. Looking back, at that time, I was confused by the centerless spontaneous coordination mechanism. Four years later, I really understood this problem.

Contributor Jameson Lopp tweeted that even if Satoshi Nakamoto returns again, he cannot modify this code.

Whether Satoshi Nakamoto returns, he is still called Satoshi, or he changes his name to Satashi.

The "can't" here does not mean that it cannot be done subjectively, but that it cannot be done objectively.

Several developers of the Bitcoin core client who have merge permissions are of course technically capable of modifying this code.

But they don’t have the ability to force everyone to accept their code.

If their changes go against the will of the majority of people, everyone can abandon their code.

Code is just the embodiment of an idea.

In the past few years, when Jiaolian discussed the big block fork dispute in 2017 and the filtering inscription dispute in 2023, it was very clear that miners with computing power must be subject to developers. Code constraints, this is called using culture to control force.

But similarly, accepting constraints does not mean obeying all instructions, whether good or evil. Anyone, first of all, a human being. To be a human being, you must first have a human conscience. Only on the basis of conscience can you talk about other social issues, such as rules, interests, obedience, etc. Just like the government cannot order the army to kill its own people, developers cannot order miners to harm the interests of currency holders.

If there is a powerful project party or leader, or he can force everyone to accept their unilateral changes to the rules by mastering a certain technical "backdoor", or he can exert strong influence." "Convince", "inspire" or "confuse" the majority of stockholders, "hidden the truth", "transfer flowers and trees", "secretly transfer old warehouses", or lure the community to accept certain changes through short-term interests, but in fact it harms long-term development and future interests. , then such a project party will evolve into a bad "government".

Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared. Bitcoin’s last point of centralization is eliminated. Since then, no one can say anything, can respond to a hundred responses, and can dominate the world.

Even if Satoshi Nakamoto returns, I am afraid it will be difficult for him to regain the throne.

Moreover, Satoshi Nakamoto is a wise man. He knows that the success of Bitcoin is inseparable from the disappearance of his personal influence.

Exactly what Satoshi Nakamoto said in 2011:

“In order to avoid being trusted by everyone, and in order to avoid affecting the development of Bitcoin, China Satoshi chose to hide his identity from the beginning, and disappeared completely in the subsequent exposure incident.

"In an email from Satoshi Nakamoto to Gavin Anderson on April 26, 2011, he Wrote this:

““I hope you won’t keep talking about me like a mysterious image. The media will only seize this and describe Bitcoin as a pirate currency. Maybe instead, put it on an open source project and give your development contributors more credit; this helps motivate them. ""

Satoshi Nakamoto's words clearly expressed his extremely high awareness of decentralization, that is: "It is important to Bitcoin without me."

So he had made clear plans from the beginning, to remain anonymous, to take nothing, and to sacrifice himself.

He launched the product independently, retired after the success, and handed it over to the community. The product continued to evolve, and thousands of people around the world organized themselves to voluntarily join this cause; he set the top-level design ten years ago , guarded by computing power, unchanged for a hundred years; he does not seek fame or fortune, and has no dream of achieving himself, but he has the feeling of achieving success for all mankind.

So he gave himself a pseudonym, "Satoshi Nakamoto".