Santoshi
Who is santoshi?
produced 21 millions BTC
Nobody produced 21 millions BTC. We only have mined a little over 19 million today. And it is a world-wide distributed process, which happened over the last 13 years. Coins are 'produced' at a 6.25
BTC/10 min rate.
and out of these 21m of btc 17.18 minions bitcoin are stored in dormant wallet accounts and nobody can retrieve those account to free the bitcoins that are locked forever.
Nobody knows that. No matter how long a coin doesn't move, it doesn't mean the access to those coins are lost. Imagine you have a bank account that you don't touch for 10 years, does this mean your funds on it are locked forever? Of course not.
That is were bitccoin became decentralized.
No, Bitcoin was decentralized from the very start. By design. You can read the
whitepaper before making such claims.
Even though we can not discuss this on public, we can just give some highlights.
Of course we can discuss this in public; in fact, we're doing it right now.
As for me if I may say, since the wallets are traced let Satoshi and his co workers unfreeze the accounts if it is possible because the number is increase month by month and year by year and be we know bitcoin will be scarce in the bitcoin space.
Satoshi doesn't have 'co workers' and he actually left the project over 10 years ago. Furthermore, nobody - I repeat, nobody - has or should have the power to touch coins that haven't moved for a while.
Furthermore, Bitcoin is highly divisible. Even if 20 million coins were provably burnt, e.g. using OP_RETURN, the remaining 1 million would still suffice as we can split it into 100 million sub-units. If needed, they could also be further divided.
