Being smarter than you makes me a troll. 
You've presented an either-or scenario that is incomplete
Sorry if you can't wrap your mind around the fact that it is complete and it excludes the relevance of any other scenarios, unless we assume Satoshi was irrational, which is quite clear he was extremely rational and his IQ is some where in my realm. This will soon become evident to you.
Everyone is grasping as straws, its all conjecture
I am not. This is what allows me to make things that are "magic" to you.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke
As everyone plainly knows we live in a 4 dimensional universe
No I showed mathematically that can't be true and that we actually live in a universe where spacetime exists in the domain of unbounded frequencies and phases. This explains how to conceptualize that there is no edge to the universe in 4D. That is my blog.