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Comment by tintedfireglass | Hacker News Reader

Honestly does it matter who is Satoshi? What's the point of all this?

Humans are literally addicted to narratives.

It doesn't matter, but "x did y to z" is critically important to many people's monkey brains, and so the referent for the first term matters more than anything else to most people.

We as humans tend to ask WHO MADE IT first and then the next question about a new product/invention and then move forward being oblivious to the fact that every invention from agriculture to insulin wasn't made by a single person. Even things like a voltaic cell and an incandescent bulb was not invented by a single person. Humans are social creatures so human inventions also have to be made by a group of people. I don't know if me transitioning into being an adult and learning that adults aren't as perfect as I thought them to be when I was 12-13 makes me feel kinda negative about Homo sapiens as a whole.

Edit : looks like I just went off-topic down a rabbit hole lol

And addicted to idols. CEOs, presidents, etc. Which is self-fulfilling prophecy.

Steve Jobs. Gates. Musk. Satoshi. Vitalik Buterin. You name it.

I think people are annoyed that they don't know who the real person behind Satoshi is, because they can't idolize them, or talk about "how they grew up" or "what they said"

I think the most interesting part is how many people seem to automatically assume “Satoshi Nakamoto” is a single person.

What if Satoshi is actually a three letter US org? what if it's a secret Chinese experiment? why do we just assume Satoshi is a single human male west coast American person with WASP ethnicity.

Who assumed that? I don't think I have seen many assumptions on who they are. Only some people claiming they are them.

Or even more, can’t use them to advance their own agenda a la “Elon musk thinks pronouns are exhausting too!”

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