WE ARE ALL SATOSHI

Guest Written by Seb Bunney

“Excuse me… can I speak to the manager?”

The age-old customer service line. But in the world of Bitcoin, this question leads to a dead end. There's no helpline, no complaints department, and definitely no manager to escalate things to. Because with Bitcoin, no one is in charge – and that's precisely the point.

Nervous about self-custody? There's a community member hosting a free workshop this weekend.

Want to build a Bitcoin business? A fellow entrepreneur wrote a blog post on every mistake they made – so you don't have to.

Trying to orange-pill your blue-collar friends? Two firefighter Bitcoiners have your back with their podcast series.

Bitcoin's community has picked up the roles typically handled by a company's customer support team, legal department, product devs, and marketers. Not because they were hired but because they care. It's the most decentralised help desk in human history.

Still, that hasn't stopped the world from obsessively trying to unmask the person behind it all.

In 2014, Newsweek dropped a bombshell: they’d found Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin. Their evidence? A retired engineer in California just so happened to be called Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto. Following the reveal, the poor guy was swarmed by journalists until he eventually set the record straight, stating:

"I'm not in Bitcoin. I don't know anything about it."

The claim was so off-base that the real Satoshi – who had been silent for years – briefly broke his online hiatus to clarify:

"I am not Dorian Nakamoto."

This raises the question—does it even matter who Satoshi is?

The answer? No.

Bitcoin's power lies in its lack of a central figure. There's no CEO to subpoena, no board to bribe, and no single point of failure. That's the beauty of it. Bitcoin has survived and thrived because no one is in charge.

Sure, Satoshi wrote the code and kickstarted the network – but the community has carried the torch ever since. And that's where this little meme gains its strength: We are all Satoshi.

Every time you orange-pill a friend, run a node, create content, build on Bitcoin, or simply share your perspective, you're playing a role in Bitcoin's story. Whether you're a barista, doctor, martial arts instructor, lawyer, or plumber, your voice matters. You see the world through a unique lens. And because of that, you can reach people no one else can.

Bitcoin's success doesn't hinge on a mystery figure from 2008. It depends on all of us, adding value, educating others, and building bridges into the future.

And so, the true power of Bitcoin lies not in its origin story, but in its ongoing story.

We are all Satoshi.