All details can be verified. There is currently ~$6.5M “reward” for the world to see, claim it if you can. It’s been sitting there and growing for ~15 years. The best hackers on the planet have either walked away or keep on trying. It was the very first step of the more than 840,000 blocks that have followed. It just sits there as proof that it can’t be taken. Nothing we have ever known has survived that.
This “boat” is world-wide, not controlled by any human intervention – individual, group, or Nation. Nobody can print more. Nobody can take it. It doesn’t give a damn, it’s a computer program. There are thousands of individuals around the world running the program on their computers. There are dozens of Companies with thousands of computers running the same program. The people do it because they believe. The Companies do it because it’s profitable, and maybe they believe. The network moves ~$150M/day on a slow day and as much as ~$1.2B back on March 5. 24/7/365. Across the globe. Happens in minutes.