The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, remains one of the blockchain’s great mysteries. Countless news articles, documentaries, and bits of internet speculation have attempted to unmask Satoshi to no avail. Earlier this month, The New York Times published a massive investigation into who they believed was behind Bitcoin. The man they identified protested that it wasn’t him. Ben McKenzie—yes, Ryan from "The O.C."—thinks it’s better, for Bitcoin at least, that he remains unknown. Crypto, he says, “has a lot of aspects of a cult,” and “a deified figure who only exists as a pseudonym” is good for those. Just to be clear, McKenzie doesn’t want this. He’s spent the last five years on a quest to tell anyone who will listen that cryptocurrency is a bad idea. In 2023, he and journalist Jacob Silverman released “Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud,” a book on the topic that includes interviews with FTX founder Sam Bankman-F...