Question, how do we know that #bitcoin doesn't have some kind of error or issue with the code? I have heard it's decentralized but couldn't Satoshi or someone else have put a way to get some money out of it?
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Good question, bitcoin is an open source protocol, there are many developers checking their code so that there are no backdoors. The validator nodes also help. And Satoshi many years ago moved away from the project if he wanted to get a monetary reward he would have done it a long time ago.
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it is kinda, there is no way to * permanently * steal money, as it involves gaslighting all the network, which requires more computational power than the sum of the computational power of the nodes you are tricking
there is a wonderful video of 3b1b about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4
it's good to be suspicious/cautious! it's probably one of the most examined pieces of code in existence, not without some quirks but no major issues that anyone's every been able to find.
Good question! The code is fully open source and available for you to inspect. So, anyone with the right skill set could go in there to understand the nuts and bolts of how the system works to prove it's decentralization and that there aren't any tricks or back doors built in by Satoshi or anyone else. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/README.md