In a dimly lit basement in Seoul, Ji-hoon stared at his screen, eyes bloodshot from forty sleepless hours.

His Bitcoin full node, hosted on a repurposed old PC, hummed quietly. Ji-hoon, 29, was a crypto purist, one of those dreamers who still believed in Satoshi’s manifesto. He’d run his node for three years, not for profit, but for a world free of bankers and oppressive regimes.

That night, though, he couldn’t believe his eyes. A notification blinked on his node. An incoming transaction. He opened his wallet:

50 BTC. Roughly $5 million at the current rate.

Attached to the transaction was an encrypted message:

“For freedom. Keep going.”

Ji-hoon’s heart stopped. He checked the blockchain. Thousands of other addresses, all tied to full nodes, had received the same amount. Satoshi had split his treasure among the network’s guardians.