There is something fascinating about thinking who the true creator of Bitcoin is and what his silence means. Satoshi Nakamoto, that pseudonym that probably everyone knows, has become one of the richest people on the planet without anyone knowing exactly who he is.

With Bitcoin hovering around $73,000 these days, the approximately 1.1 million coins that Satoshi accumulated in the early days of mining are worth about $80 billion in theory. It’s not the top 10 of Forbes that was mentioned earlier, but it remains an absolutely astronomical figure for someone who has never touched a single satoshi of that fortune.

The strangest thing is that those bitcoins have been completely immobile since 2010. Not a move, not a transaction, nothing. Generations of speculators have tried to decipher what this means. Is Satoshi dead? Did he simply decide to retire and let his creation grow on its own? Or does he have some personal commitment not to touch the project again?

Think of it this way: most billionaires build companies, raise venture capital, do IPOs. Satoshi did something completely different. He quietly launched Bitcoin in 2009 and disappeared. Sixteen years later, that network he created is valued at over two trillion dollars. All without the Bitcoin creator moving a finger since then.

Now that Bitcoin continues to reach all-time highs driven by ETFs and institutions, the irony is that Satoshi’s fortune is entirely theoretical. He has never sold, never verified that he can access those coins. It’s as if he were the most anonymous billionaire in the world, invisible but omnipresent in every conversation about cryptocurrencies.

Satoshi’s last public communication was in 2011. Since then, only mystery and speculation. And meanwhile, his legacy continues to grow.