let's do this Torian is the guy
Indonesian because the post was was in
Indonesian yes the big question so
basically holders of essa' which was the
currency for aetherium
they have something called wallets and
they only identify those very long
characters about 16 or so completely
random collection of letters and numbers
and so we spent a you know a few days
trying to work out who might be the
biggest holders of this and it's pretty
much impossible to identify a wallet
with an individual investor the one
exception being that there was this sort
of slightly mysteriously Instagram post
from an Indonesian investor who claimed
credit for it and then the story kind of
goes through who might be the most
likely people to be making a big money
out of this I mean from what you just
said
that's a 400% return in a month so
there's certainly people out there
making a lot of money
it's just really basically impossible
that's by design to know who those
actual individuals might be who were the
likely billionaires so one we know for
sure is their guy called Mike Novogratz
who used to be in fortress and he says
he's got about 10% of his net worth in
in sort of crypto currencies that comes
to about 100 million the other two most
likely candidates are sort of the
founders of aetherium so that would be
Joe Lubin who is you know it's said to
have perhaps hundreds of millions in
this currency alone a single currency
and also the the original crater a very
young Russian 23 called
pewter and Hugh has said on reddit so
not entirely reliable right on read at
least that here's about a hundred two
hundred million of that now in terms of
this secrecy surrounding it you have
people like Novogratz who says it's
actually something holding it back but
then you have a lot of people who buy
not just Assyrian but invest in Bitcoin
also who do it just because it's secret
so is there sort of a tipping point
coming where one of those parties is
gonna win out I mean does it look like
anything's gonna change here I think
they're pretty much at loggerheads so
you have as you say some people who
perhaps want to tree it more like you
know kind of a just a different form of
currency who would say hey we need to
have some kind of regulation here we
want some better give it credibility
exactly cuz that's the big problem is
you know if you don't have who knows
who's on the other side some people are
saying hey I don't want to get involved
in that because who knows where this
money is coming from but then on the
flip side and philosophically this is a
really where Bitcoin and the theorem
came from is why should you know
identity be tailed into these financial
when it gets used for things like
ransomware attacks and they demand to be
paid and the likes a Bitcoin at some
point regulators I guess have to step in
and then either of those two parties
don't get a choice if the regulator's
make a decision that unfortunately
greater informations needed no
definitely and that's sort of what the
more you see of those attacks the
greater that pressure bill to the
European Parliament for example has said
hey virtual currencies they cannot be
anonymous if you know if they want to
sort of have the impact on the world day
they hoped you