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Satoshi Cryptography & Digital Money 02 Nov 2026

Satoshi's 2008 conversation about why Bitcoin won't be killed by zombie computers

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It's like saying a bad actor can steal a bank's vault, but they can't become the bank — even if they break in, they can't do anything useful with their moment of control.

This means Bitcoin's resilience against computational attacks wasn't an accident of design — Satoshi thought deeply about why distributed systems might survive even when attackers have more raw computing power.


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