Because when we first learned of his intelligence we committed him, and waited 40 years to give recognition. Not in a grave yet, but certainly spinning at the idea that we could possibly be so ignorant to not realize that satoshi nakamoto = I am nash sato koto and the author of Ideal money: http://sites.stat.psu.edu/~babu/nash/money.pdf

John Nash sirs and mams.

How long and how far will we go to suppress this mans genious.