What Satoshi did

You may be familiar with Satoshi Nakamoto, the software engineer. Renowned or reviled, he’s well-known under that guise. You might also know Satoshi as a monetary designer – the creator of a new kind of digital asset. But in this article, we'll introduce you to Satoshi, the social architect and founding father. Our topic is bitcoin’s social layer: its people. Our questions are these: what social features enable bitcoin to be what it is? How does bitcoin’s network of users differ from more familiar institutions or organized groups of people? More to the point: what was Satoshi’s own role in all this? How did Satoshi’s decisions as a social architect shape bitcoin’s future institutional profile?