Was Satoshi Even Human?

There is a person or something that built the most important financial system of the 21st century.

They have never been photographed, never been identified, never spent a single penny of their $100 billion fortune.

And in April 2011, they sent one final email, typed three sentences and disappeared from the face of the earth.

January 3rd, 2009, 6.15pm Greenwich Mean Time.

A line of text is written into the foundation of a parallel monetary system.

Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.

It is the front page headline of that morning's London Times, and it is now embedded permanently, immutably, on every node on earth, into the first block of a network that is worth $1.618 trillion today.

And a growing number of serious people, academics at Oxford and Berkeley, Islamic scholars across the Gulf, the most influential figures in modern finance, believe Satoshi Nakamoto was not, in any normal sense of the word, human.

There are over 4,000 religions on this planet.

Some people find theirs in a church, some find it in a stadium on a Sunday afternoon, and some find it in a movie.

There are people who genuinely believe The Matrix is a documentary.

Some people increasingly find it in Bitcoin.

Now, I know what you're thinking.

What a load of nonsense.

And that was my initial reaction too.

Bitcoin is a financial asset.

It's code.

It's a network.

It's a hedge against inflation.

It is not a religion.

But was I actually right about that? If so, why are peer-reviewed academics at Berkeley and Oxford publishing papers arguing that in fact it is a religion? Why does Max Keiser, one of the most influential voices in crypto, say on television with a straight face that Satoshi Nakamoto is the second coming of Jesus? Why are the parallels between the story of Christianity and the story of Bitcoin so uncanny that it stops being funny somewhere around the third disciple? And then there's an even bigger question.

What if understanding why Bitcoin is a religion is not just a curiosity but the key to understanding the price? Because the market cap, the institutional adoption, the willingness of sovereign nations to hold Bitcoin while ignoring most other crypto assets, none of that is explained by the technology.

It is however explained by what the technology means to the people who hold it.

Now, let me be clear on this.

You absolutely don't have to believe any of this by the end of the video, but I promise I researched this topic to the best of my ability so you can at least understand why some people claim that Satoshi is the second coming of Jesus, an alien or a time traveler.