> Important notice: This is a literary/satirical text that uses metaphor and symbolism. It is not a fact and does not rely on historical evidence.
In a time when banks were saved while people drowned, a cold signature appeared: “Satoshi Nakamoto.” No face, no history. Just a paper teaching us how to send value without a mediator, and how to make trust a mathematical equation rather than a human heart. What soul would want mercy to be replaced by an algorithm? A soul that sees in humans nothing but a contract that can be true or false. Isn’t this what the devil has wanted for a long time: to separate the spirit from meaning and leave us in a market that knows nothing but supply and demand?
The “devil” chooses a mysterious Japanese name, creates a perfectly structured document, and then withdraws. Why does he withdraw? Because the purest evils are those that do not seek glory. It plants a seed of insatiable desire: a number that can become wealth, and wealth that can become slavery to the number. The circle expands: miners, traders, forecasters, prophets on Twitter, and hands trembling before red and green candles. It all begins with a signature without a body.
But the devil does not hate freedom; rather, he wears it as a mask. In the first block, a phrase about “a second lifeline for banks” is planted. What a sermon! It passes as if it were a new gospel: trust only the code. And here lies the trap: when the revolution against injustice turns into blind faith in the tool, people become slaves to the incentive engine, and the moral question is lost: who do we hold accountable when the algorithm errs? Who do we complain to when the markets shatter the dreams of the poor? No one. In this void, the devil applauds: the rite is complete.
And yet… is the evil in the currency or in the heart that carries it? The devil creates nothing out of nothing but whispers where there is susceptibility. If there were no thirst within us for certainty without humanity, for wealth without toil, and for authority without a state, he would find no path for his whispers. If “the devil-Satoshi” has created something, it is a mirror: reflecting our love for control, fear of the other, and the dream of having rules without exceptions. And the mirror does not kill anyone; what kills is what we decide while staring at it for too long.
If you want to defeat the devil, do not turn off the network or break the private keys; add a conscience to mathematics, justice to the market, and responsibility to freedom. Make money a tool to serve humanity, not humanity fuel for the price machine. Then, the signature of “Satoshi” will transform from a curse to a lesson: that technology without ethics is not a devil because it has magic, but because we strip it of our humanity and kneel before it.
