Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Chris Larsen arguing that Bitcoin ownership is limited to three groups—people who bought it, people who mined it, or people who stole it—and emphasizing that proof-of-work rewards work and creates a decentralized network owned by its participants.
There's only three people that own bitcoin in this entire world, and I can guarantee this. It's people who bought it, people who mined it, or people who stole it. Those are the only three people that have it. Yeah, you can't say that about any ipo. You can't say that. Like, those are all permission based access points. We both got invited to bitcoin's launch and we're still invited to bitcoin's launch. And we will always be invited because work is rewarded in a proof of work network. And so when you look at the value of the potential value of a network that's owned by the people for the people, there's kind of no turning back after that, in my opinion.
