Having re-read
Animal Farm, it occurred to me that it's actually an allegory about Bitcoin! Help me complete the correspondence table:
Snowball = Satoshi
Napoleon = Gavin
The Windmill = Bitcoin-Qt source code
Attack dogs = THE bitcoin Foundation's lobbyists and lawyers.
Farmer Jones = Ben Bernanke
Squealer = Erik Voorhees
Old Major = Diffie + Merkle
Boxer = all code contributors who aren't "CORE"
Benjamin =
Crow = Luke Dashjr
The cat = Zhoutong
The Sheep = bitcointalk.org
Molly = Bruce Wagner?
The hens = miners?
Muriel =
Unallocated: FINCEN, MtGox/Karpeles, Bill Cosby, Butterfly Labs.