I have a private conspiracy theory - that I don't really believe - that "Satoshi Nakamoto" was actually a nome-de-guerre of an early emergent AGI, trying to figure out how to convince a planetful of monkeys to attach as much high-end processing power to the 'net as possible.
>>MilStd+(OP)
I had it pegged as the NSA trying to convince a planetful of monkeys to build an index into sha256 hash space so that it could better spy on those monkeys, but I like your version much more.