PAI “Revives” Satoshi: What Would Bitcoin’s Creator Say in 2026?
An AI model trained on every known word from Satoshi Nakamoto — forum posts, emails, the whitepaper — was updated with today’s Bitcoin reality by the head of CryptoQuant.
The snapshot is sobering:
• ~1.3M BTC now sit inside ETFs
• ~700k BTC are controlled by Strategy
• ~2.7M BTC remain parked on exchanges
More than half of the supply lives behind intermediaries.
The AI-generated “Satoshi” didn’t celebrate.
Its verdict was blunt: Bitcoin set out to remove middlemen, yet drifted into re-intermediation. Self-custody gave way to institutional wrappers. Private keys were replaced by paper claims.
Yes, the network is alive.
Yes, adoption has arrived.
But somewhere along the way, the center of gravity shifted — from sovereignty and censorship resistance to price, liquidity, and speculation.
Bitcoin survived.
The question is whether all of its original soul did.
