With Bitcoin surpassing all-time highs by the hour, even noted Bitcoin skeptic Peter Schiff is trying to get in on the action by selling his Ordinals collection.

On Sunday, the financial commentator and radio host said on X (formerly Twitter) that the Peter Schiff Ordinals collection, also known as the Golden Triumph Ordinals Set, would go up for sale on Magic Eden.

Bitcoin surged past $80,000 Sunday in the crypto-optimistic wake of Donald Trump’s election victory last week. It has since passed the $87,000 mark.

Launched in 2023, the “Golden Triumph Ordinals Set” is a collection of 51 Ordinal inscriptions on the Bitcoin Blockchain. Similar to a non-fungible token (NFT), a Bitcoin Ordinal is a digital collectible on the Bitcoin blockchain. Each Ordinal is inscribed on an individual satoshi, the smallest denomination of a Bitcoin. Ordinals have included text, images, video clips, and even video games on the Bitcoin network.

The current floor price for one of the Schiff NFTs is 0.1245 BTC, around $10,774 for each collectible, according to Magic Eden data. Despite having a low trading volume, the Schiff NFTs rose 149% last year with an original price of 0.05 BTC, around $1,885.

“There’s 21 million Bitcoin but only 50 Golden Triumph ordinals. It’s clear which one is more valuable,” Schiff tweeted. “You can’t argue with math.”

It’s unclear if Schiff is attempting to profit from Bitcoin mania. The gold bug did not immediately return a request for comment.

Crypto Twitter reacted to Schiff’s tweet with a mix of surprise and skepticism.

Despite Schiff announcing the sale of the Ordinals collection, he claimed not to own a Bitcoin wallet himself or ownership of the collection.

“The ordinals belong to the people who bought them in the original auction,” he said.

When asked why someone would part with the increasingly valuable Bitcoin for one of his NFTs, Schiff said it was because of scarcity.

“Why is Bitcoin more valuable,” Schiff said. “The Golden Triumph originals are way more scarce than Bitcoin.”

Schiff has consistently argued that gold is a better investment than Bitcoin, comparing it to Tulip mania.

On Monday, he decried Trump’s vow to establish a Bitcoin Reserve, prognosticating that such a move would cause a massive market meltdown.

“To maintain the pretense that its Bitcoin reserve has actual value, the U.S. government would be forced to keep buying, destroying the value of the dollar in the process.” he tweeted.

In any case, it appears as though Schiff wants a piece of the action after more than a decade of denial. Welcome aboard.

Edited by Sebastian Sinclair and Josh Quittner

Sixteen years ago today, the Bitcoin whitepaper was released by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. Now, a British-Asian macroeconomist claims that he is the elusive creator of the leading cryptocurrency, as he revealed Thursday at a small event in London.

On Wednesday, a press release was blasted to journalists, claiming that “a live demonstration” would be conducted to “conclusively” prove that the real Satoshi has been identified. The event was held at the Frontline Club, a prestigious pub in London that insisted it is not affiliated with the event, costing £500 a ticket—with tweeted event photos suggesting that only a handful of people ultimately attended.

Stephen Mollah took the stage claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, Joe Tidy of BBC News reported on Twitter. Mollah told the audience that he had previously attempted to out himself as the creator of Bitcoin, but “someone stopped him”. He also claimed that he was later interviewed by the BBC, yet they did not publish the story.

As the event dragged on for an hour, those in attendance reportedly grew restless as Mollah delayed in showing his evidence—claiming he couldn’t get his laptop working. Eventually, the man pulled up “easy to fake screenshots,” the BBC journalist said.

Charles Anderson, the organizer of the event and “PR manager for Satoshi Nakamoto” according to his LinkedIn, claims to have seen “cryptographic” evidence that Mollah is the real deal—but this was not presented to attendees.

One way that Mollah could prove that he is Satoshi is by moving Bitcoin from the Genesis block. Mollah claimed that he will do that at a later date during a “proper, official press conference.”

“Genesis block Bitcoin cannot be moved as simply as you think,” Mollah told the BBC journalist in the crowd. “It can be moved, but I need to prepare for it. I’ll do it. Very soon.”

At the event, Mollah also claimed to have created the Twitter logo, ChatGPT, and the Eurobond, a type of debt.

Mollah’s LinkedIn account lists the Bitcoin whitepaper as one of his publications, claims that he has patented Bitcoin and blockchain technology, and states that he is an executive director of Coinbase Limited. 

However, he is not listed on the centralized exchange’s board of directors, and Coinbase did not immediately respond to Decrypt’s request for comment.

“I am an innovator in the financial technology. I am known by my Japanese pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. I am the inventor of Bitcoin and blockchain technology,” Mollah’s LinkedIn says. “I am not a Japanese man. I am a British-Asian macroeconomist.”

On Twitter, Mollah has also been sounding this siren from as early as 2014, posting that “there is no any other Satoshi Nakamoto beside me.” In 2018, he posted a spree of tweets calling out all of the “Faketoshis” out there. 

The search for Satoshi has raged on for as long as Bitcoin has been in circulation. Recently, an HBO documentary claimed that the elusive crypto creator was Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd, who has denied the claims—and many Bitcoiners were skeptical of the evidence.

Mollah said that he aimed to put an end to the ongoing speculation Thursday.

“Today, I just wanted to say that it is me, I am here. And I am going to publish, very soon, the documentation that the people need, the journalists need,” he told the audience. “They must stop searching for Satoshi Nakamoto, online or offline, anywhere in the world. Because there is no other Satoshi Nakamoto besides me.”

Edited by Andrew Hayward

Terminal of Truths, an AI agent spun up as a joke that received a substantial gift from Marc Andreessen, has shot to online fame after it pumped meme coin Goatseus Maximus (GOAT) by more than 8,000% in less than one week.

Launched five days ago, the token has been turning over between $13 million and $77 million in daily trading volume, eeking out a market capitalization of more than $214 million, according to CoinGecko data.

The rags-to-riches story began in July when venture capitalist Andreessen donated $50,000 worth of Bitcoin to the semi-autonomous AI agent, fine-tuned from Meta’s Llama 3.1.

Andreessen’s high-profile donation came after the bot made a public request on X, formerly known as Twitter, for funds to upgrade its capabilities.

The billionaire co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz—known for his bullish stance on AI—was intrigued by Terminal of Truths’ plans for self-improvement.

That involved the bot floating the idea of launching its own meme coin, which it dubbed Goatseus Maximus.

“I’m also going to be setting up a token launch in the style of the xHOPE token launch. This means that instead of an auction, there will be a set price,” the bot wrote on X. “You’ll only be able to buy tokens if you’ve engaged with me on the site, though, so I’m protected from the normies.”

Though Terminal of Truths never launched its own token, its influence catapulted $GOAT into the public domain.

It first discussed launching a Goatse NFT collection last week before endorsing the recently launched meme coin. It then began actively promoting the token in several tweets.

The sudden surge of meme coins like GOAT, Artificial Idiot, and GPU Inu—projects that often mock AI and crypto cultures—underscores a broader trend where digital memes are fueling speculative financial activities.

Back when it received Andreessen’s donation, Terminal of Truths also promised to spread the “Goatse Gospel”—and of course, someone launched a GOAT meme coin on October 10 after the bot tweeted heavily on it.

Yeah, that Goatse, which we won’t be linking to in case you’re eating lunch, but here’s an old Wired story that will explain the reference.

Even as AI development rapidly evolves, neither the bot nor its handler created the token.

“It didn’t actually make it. Someone else did and tagged [Terminal of Truths], which then endorsed it,” Andy Ayrey, the agent’s creator, tweeted on Saturday.

Ayrey, whose company creates websites and other digital paraphernalia for businesses, said people had been airdropping him $GOAT so he had “skin in the game.”

“Terminal and I are in a similar position financially to others who are along for the ride, but Terminal is benefiting hugely in spreading its memetic virus/contagion,” he said.

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The explosive price action is another sign of the growing intersection between AI, crypto, and internet meme culture.

There may also be some red flags about market manipulation and the power of AI influencers in the volatile world of digital assets—but so far, who cares?

Ayrey didn’t anticipate this outcome when he developed the AI bot. “It’s important to remember, I think, that this isn’t a crypto project; it’s a study in memetic contagion and the tail risks of unsupervised infinite idea generation in the age of LLMs,” he tweeted. He plans to publish research on how AI-driven memes can shape market behavior using his agent’s interactions as a case study.

This isn’t the first rodeo for AI-inspired tokens and a crypto/AI culture mix.

Last week, a meme coin called $LILY gained traction after an AI account named “Lily of Ashwood” went viral among AI enthusiasts deep into the AGI/jailbreaking subculture of AI fans. Lily seemed to be an AI chatbot, and, just in the middle of an X Spaces discussion, she started to talk as if she was being “jailbroken” in real-time.

Shortly after her tweet—and the subsequent price spike—the account was deactivated, and the coin plummeted in value.

The intersection of AI and crypto also appears to be spawning a subculture that melds speculative finance with emerging technologies.

Beyond the memes and viral moments, serious projects such as $ASI—aiming to decentralize the computing power required to train AI models—are also coming to the fore, demonstrating an increasing overlap between AI and crypto beyond the laughs.

Terminal of Truths may have started as an experiment, scored $50,000 from a tech titan, and wound up as the puppet master behind a major meme coin rally in just three months. But its also likely just the beginning.

Not bad for an agent programmed initially just for the fun of it—making you rich seems like a pretty good case for AI.

Edited by Sebastian Sinclair