The other day on HN I saw a comment that described Bitcoin/proof-of-work cryptocurrencies as being "created by an act of ritual sacrifice" (of electricity/compute power).
I recon there's grounds for some amusing short stories in there.
It would certainly explain why nobody has found Satoshi! He was just a tool of Cthulhu and his cultists to increase the rate of dissipation. At some critical juncture the total entropy of the system will be sufficient to allow invasion of our reality by tentacular horrors.
Maybe...
Maybe SHA-256 itself encodes a complex ritual for summoning the old ones. Bitcoin ASICs are effectively performing this ritual billions upon billions of times per second, gradually drawing the Old Ones closer and closer...