I just reviewed something that never ceases to amaze me: the amount of bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto owns would make him one of the richest people on the planet, without ever moving a single satoshi.

Think about it for a second. The anonymous creator of Bitcoin accumulated around 1.1 million BTC during the early days of network mining. That was over 15 years ago. And here’s the fascinating part: those bitcoins have never been touched. Not a single one.

At the time Bitcoin recently hit all-time highs, Satoshi’s wallet was worth over $134 billion in theoretical value. To give you a sense of scale, that would place him among the most prominent billionaires in the world, competing with names like Warren Buffett or Steve Ballmer. Only Sergey Brin from Google would be a few billion dollars ahead.

What intrigues me most is that this fortune is entirely theoretical. No one has seen Satoshi move his funds, no one has verified if he can actually access them. For 16 years, that wallet has remained completely silent since 2010. It fuels all kinds of speculation: Is he dead? Did he disappear? Did he simply decide never to interfere with his creation again?

And the most remarkable part is how he got here. It wasn’t through a traditional company, nor venture capital investment, nor an IPO. It was a silent launch of a protocol that today moves more than $2.4 trillion. That really offers a different perspective on what it truly means to create value.

The question we all ask ourselves is inevitable: exactly how many bitcoins does Satoshi Nakamoto have, and why do they remain dormant while the price fluctuates? Some see those bitcoins as a guarantee that the original vision will never be fully compromised. Others simply speculate about when or if we will ever see movement in that legendary wallet.