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 I treat this the same way I do influencer accusations that Satoshi Nakamoto was actually a CIA agent. The code is open with lots of very smart privacy advocates eyes on it who develop it in a way that it is dev greed and sabotage proof. That's the beautiful thing about cryptography, math doesn't rely on trust or lie. 
 Exactly. It doesn't really matter who created it. Disappearing is one of the best things Satoshi did. Humans focus too much on people rather than ideas and fundamental principles.