The anonymous creator of Bitcoin has broken into the ranking of the most influential figures in the global financial system. Satoshi Nakamoto now influences the world even more than Mark Zuckerberg, Kristalina Georgieva, or Paul Krugman. The portal Worth.com placed Satoshi at number 44 in the TOP-100 ranking of the world's most influential financiers. Analysts acknowledge that behind the pseudonym of BTC's creator there may be hiding a man, a woman, a group of people, or even an alien. Be that as it may, the efforts of the unknown person or persons overturned traditional views on finance, which had been centralized for hundreds of years. Bitcoin gained unprecedented popularity. Even large corporations like IBM or MasterCard began to study the possibilities of the real-world application of blockchain.
Satoshi changed the rules of the game in the financial sphere. And Bitcoin is considered the main weapon against the fiat system, which is based on constant inflation. Nakamoto limited the maximum amount of cryptocurrency in circulation, which is why it is often called "digital gold". Worth.com analysts also note the enormous fortune of Bitcoin's creator. Nakamoto controls at least 980,000 BTC — almost five percent of all bitcoins in circulation. His fortune was estimated at 19.4 billion dollars at the peak of the cryptocurrency's value in December 2018. Satoshi's funds would allow him to quickly crash the crypto market if he suddenly decided to cash out all his money. However, such a scenario is highly unlikely.
In 2015, University of California, Los Angeles professor Bhagwan Chowdhry proposed nominating Satoshi Nakamoto for the Nobel Prize in Economics. But representatives of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences stated that they would allow an anonymous person to participate in the competition only after they revealed their identity. The crypto community received this news with sadness. At the same time, some enthusiasts also reminded that governments' actions toward Satoshi would be ruinous if he suddenly really did want to go public.
