Theoretical anthropologist Natalie Smolenski discusses her latest work, The Satoshi Papers, the second book-length academic text on Bitcoin ... talk about and investigate what the relationship between ...

Keeping the identity secret looks like a stroke of genius in hindsight. As Bitcoin rose to digital regency, the real Satoshi Nakamoto must have dodged thousands of paparazzi and gold diggers.

Satoshi has certainly never re-emerged to comment on the emergence of DeFi, the merits of Layer 2s — or even the launch of Bitcoin Ordinals last year, which introduced Ethereum-like functionality.

As a result, interest in the mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto—the creator of bitcoin whose real world identity has remained unknown even as the bitcoin price tops $100,000—has surged, with a HBO ...