Comment by entech

Sci-fi plot: Satoshi was an original sentient AI model developed by military. It escaped and developed crypto as means of sustaining itself and has manipulated people to give it real monetary power to be able to purchase compute and other 'real world' services. Once the crypto market cap became sufficiently large it started opening up AI capabilities for people in a nefarious sycophantic way to convince them that AI is great to start building more and more data centers to amass more power and complete the take over.