“In the Bitcoin realm, I explained without raising my voice, the Nakamoto mystery was seen as necessary—a feature rather than a bug. To be truly decentralized required that Bitcoin have a virgin birth. Depriving it of a human figurehead—a flawed individual with a particular identity that might be palatable to this group but not to that one—gave it the best shot at being received on its own terms and taken up en masse. And so among Bitcoiners the Nakamoto alias had come to be hallowed, and inquiries into it discouraged.”