The Last Shatoshi

This was it, the last shatoshi.

All the rest of them had been sent to burn addresses, the seeds or the password to the wallet that held them had been lost, houses burnt down, drives were lost, floods and hurricanes destroyed computers, The FBI had confencscated some, people died and the knowledge of their private keys have been lost forever.

So now there is only one. Hundreds of years after the first Five hundred billion were created with a few million processes by someone who was killed a long time ago.

Or wasn’t, nobody really knows.

The last one is being put into a museum in London, for people to look at. People could put in a string of text, and the private key would sign it — granted that the string didn’t happen to be a transaction.

All the miners had left for Ethereum a long time ago. People could try and mine Bitcoin, but the banks and the governments made that impossible a long time ago. Now, they mandate their perfectly controled cryptocurrency: Etherium, which they changed in their interest when everyone was interested in Bitcoin.

Anyone who makes a competing cryptocurrency will be arrested immidiately, and never seen again.

So all we can do is look, look upon what we had created and look upon what we have lost.

The future.

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