Satoshi Nakamoto recognizes Bitcoin as an “investment” and predicts a limit of 100,000 network nodes

According to Bitcoin Magazine editor Rizzo, Satoshi Nakamoto’s earliest collaborator Martii “Sirius” Malmi has just released the entire email history of their communications, totaling 120 pages, which shows: 1. When asked how Bitcoin would scale in the future, Satoshi Nakamoto speculated that the network would have up to 100,000 nodes, and he delved into computing and the economics of large-scale networks. (Note: There are currently around 50,000 nodes running Bitcoin); 2. Satoshi Nakamoto believes that the energy consumption of Bitcoin mining will be lower than that of the traditional banking system; 3. Satoshi Nakamoto expected that Bitcoin would have at least one viable non-monetary use, supporting timestamp use cases; 4. Satoshi Nakamoto was worried about the legal risks of launching Bitcoin, but he did not feel "uncomfortable" with Bitcoin as an investment. In addition, Satoshi Nakamoto himself did not come up with the term "cryptocurrency"; 5. Satoshi Nakamoto believes that Bitcoin has become a way to trade free reserve currencies and other Internet currencies.