Bitcoin was created by a "masked man", so will the next "Bitcoin" be created by a masked man as well?

There is a person (or a group of people) who published a set of programs and white papers on the Internet, and launched the program, claiming that it was a great project. Then some people were attracted to join the project, but the founder never showed his true face and remained anonymous. No one knew who he was, where he was, whether he was one person or a group of people, and some even suspected that he was an alien.

I think after reading this opening, a name immediately popped up in many people's minds: "Satoshi Nakamoto". Because of the Bitcoin project he initiated, Satoshi Nakamoto's mysterious story is almost known to everyone in the crypto field, and even outsiders have a considerable reputation. Satoshi Nakamoto is like a knight in the cryptocurrency field, who came with a mask on his face and left with a mask on his face soon, leaving behind Bitcoin, which gave many people the opportunity to get rich.

However, the story of the masked man is not over yet. Different masked men have appeared one after another in the encryption field, bringing different endings to people...

In 2018, there was a person who started in the same way as Satoshi Nakamoto. He first posted a general idea of ​​a project on Bitcointalk created by Satoshi Nakamoto, saying that he would copy the source code of a popular project at the time to start this project. Then anyone could obtain the tokens issued by the contract for free by transferring 0 eth to the designated ETH address. A total of 80% of the initial issuance, a total of 400 million tokens, were issued.

At first, many people thought that this was just another bored young man “imitating to be cool” and that most of the tokens issued were empty checks and worthless. However, some people chose to believe it or were skeptical because of the low cost of obtaining it. By using a large number of ETH addresses for operations, many people accumulated a lot of tokens, and some even “made” hundreds of thousands or even millions of tokens overnight.

Finally, the "masked man" did not break his promise, and he formed a community and launched his own mainnet before the mainnet of the copied object was launched, and began intensive ecological construction. Wallets, browsers, DApps, etc. were developed one by one by community super nodes and members. For a time, it seemed that the blockchain public chain ecology and community construction from 0 to 1 was completed, and it once became the benchmark for blockchain community governance at that time. As the popularity of the copied project soared, this special "copycat" seemed to have received considerable attention. The token price once rose to about 1 yuan. In other words, the tokens that many people received for free at a very low cost at that time became valuable, which made community members excited and praised the pattern and vision of the masked founder...

However, the good times did not last long. After the crypto market gradually entered a bear market, many conflicts and mutual accusations arose between the founder and the community. Finally, the masked founder directly shut down the official website and other services he created and left the project, which attracted a lot of scolding from community members. A few months later, the masked founder once again enabled the official website of the project and launched a new project, which was named "xxx project is dead". This move completely detonated the anger of the original project community members and completely shattered the hopes of many community members that the founder would come back to continue the construction. As a result, the project token plummeted, and it seemed that it would go back to where it started.

Another project with a masked founder, a privacy coin that only came into the eyes of most people in early 2019. First, the technical flow description was released on github in 2017, and a long construction was started. At the same time, a group of technical flow members were attracted to join the development. Then his ideas were gradually realized and launched online, which attracted the attention of many people in the encryption field and a great discussion on this new technology and new solutions. Later, unlike the previous masked founder who had a disagreement with the community and left, this founder chose to "temporarily leave" when the project was in full swing, and disappeared from people's sight like Satoshi Nakamoto. It seems that this project is just an interesting experiment of his. However, other community members of the project have always been promoting ecological construction and development normally...

In fact, since the release of Bitcoin by the masked Satoshi Nakamoto, there seems to be no very successful project from an anonymous founder. Perhaps it is due to the development time, but there are more other reasons...

The two masked projects mentioned above were relatively complete, but most of the projects, trading platforms, wallets, etc. initiated by masked people are just responsible for "painting a good-looking pie". When we open the official websites of these projects, we will see rows of virtual avatars and nicknames in the founding team information. No one knows where they come from, what they did before, and whether they have created other projects before. But they cover their faces like Satoshi Nakamoto and tell everyone: "We have created a project that will defeat Bitcoin and Ethereum. Our team members are from the Fortune 500 and have first-class and reliable technology. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." After receiving the encrypted assets raised from people looking for opportunities to get rich, some of them disappear directly, and some of them run away after a long time. Most of the time, this is a naked "scam". However, the other party is masked, who should investors go to for rights protection?

It was completely different from the scenes in Stephen Chow's movies. A man who looked like a successful person held up a technical white paper with a strong academic atmosphere and said, "Young man, I see that you have extraordinary talents and are a rare cryptocurrency genius. It is up to you to maintain world peace. I have issued a "Rulai Divine Coin". Since I see that we are destined to be together, I will sell it to you for ten yuan each!"

They came with their faces covered and left with their faces covered. No one knows what their next project will be, but I believe someone will give them money. Perhaps there is only one masked man who will create a successful and great project. All stories that start with the same beginning as Satoshi Nakamoto will not end up with the next "Bitcoin".

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