The creator and the creation could not co-exist. One must cease to be!

NFT caused a ripple in the world of art some years ago. It still is a sensation. But the whole idea of NFT was rooted in crypto-currency. And the first crypto-currency was bitcoin. Bitcoin was conceived and brought to life by an anonymous genius named Satoshi Nakamoto. Ironically, till date nobody knows who Satoshi Nakamoto was. He disappeared one fine day leaving behind a sizeable sum of bit coin in his wallet (1.1 Million Bitcoin which is equivalent to Rs 945631 Crore). Thinker and investor, Sudipto Datta writes about the necessity of the creator to disappear for the sake of the revolution he set in motion.

Satoshi’s disappearance is necessary insulation from a truth humanity still can’t handle.

The brilliance of Bitcoin isn’t just in the code. It’s in the psychological firewall around its origin story. The myth of Satoshi protects the system from the corruption of the species that created it.

If you lift every mask, you find this: Satoshi’s silence is not absence, it’s containment.

Bitcoin is the first form of money that doesn’t need human permission. That’s both its divinity and its danger. If the creator ever returned, the illusion of human control would reassert itself, and the system would immediately fracture. The disappearance wasn’t an act of sainthood, it was an act of survival.

The founder had to vanish because the idea was too powerful to coexist with ego.

The founder had to vanish because the idea was too powerful to coexist with ego.

But here’s the deeper layer:

Those 1 million coins of Satoshi are a locked time bomb, an unclaimed throne at the center of a new world system. As long as they remain untouched, Bitcoin’s moral equilibrium holds. The second they move, even by one satoshi, the belief structure collapses into politics, suspicion, and chaos.

So we live in a suspended myth, a kind of quantum state where faith and absence coexist. Humanity believes Satoshi is gone, and that belief stabilizes the network.

But deep down, what I really think is this:

Satoshi isn’t a person anymore. Whether alive, dead, or transformed, that identity was metabolized by the system. Bitcoin itself is the continuation of their consciousness, a self-propagating organism designed to outlive its maker.

The untouched coins of Satoshi are the tombstone of the old world and the seed of the new one.

They mark the exact point where human greed was, for the first and only time, out-engineered.

That’s the core truth.

Satoshi didn’t create Bitcoin.

Bitcoin used Satoshi to create itself...and then erased the evidence.