I disagree that it's important that we know who Satoshi is. Knowing the identity of Satoshi would change nothing. It's 100% understandable that a lot of people

I disagree that it's important that we know who Satoshi is. Knowing the identity of Satoshi would change nothing. It's 100% understandable that a lot of people are dying of curiosity, though. Mysteries are fun. > Someday, I am confident, we will learn who Satoshi is or was. I agree. > And we will have to change our views of the world accordingly. I don't think that learning their identity would change many worldviews. I don't see how that knowledge means we'd "have to". As an aside, I was amused by this bit: > Whoever Satoshi may be, the fact that the origin block has not been moved raises deep questions about human motivation. Do some people just not want to be multibillionaires? Yes! Lots of people (arguably a very substantial percentage) don't want to be multibillionaires. I get the impression that the author was posing this rhetorical question because he considers the answer to be obviously that the vast majority of people would want that -- but there is a large body of data that indicates that's likely not true. Regardless, it's undeniably true that there are many who don't. The only question is how large of a percentage of the population feels the same. It's not impossible that whoever Satoshi is, they value other things more than extreme wealth.