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Satoshi's last message before his disappearance was that he has 'moved on to other things'. Now my question is this, if actually Satoshi Nakamoto saw a good vision of what Bitcoin will turn out to be in the future, why then did he decided to move on to other things instead of focusing more on the Bitcoin project to make sure that he also took part in achieving the adoption of this digital currency? So unfortunate Satoshi should have been the one to answer this question.

I've moved on to other things (https://cointelegraph.com/news/satoshi-nakamoto-final-email-revisited-after-13-years)

His decision his rules. We all seen the messages here like few times and tackle about it. The link with the article sounded like Satoshi Unto something which I think is just pure speculation. No one will know what his next move. Who knows if his running a famous project now that we are seeing, no one can tell since his footprint leaves no trace at all.

And the user who spoke with Satoshi was active in 2023 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2700), although he no longer making post since 2016.

We don't know what's actually he meant to move to other things, but I think the longer he hanging around, it will increase the possibility someone might able to leak his information and find out who're actually Satoshi is.

All the news and speculations resurfacing on the internet are all old news, nothing new has been said since.


“I have moved on to other things” does not carry any meaning - it does not tell us if what he has moved on to is related to crypto or not. His intentions might be different from what he wrote and just as you said it’s unfortunate that he’s not here to answer the question himself - all that will be said will just be based on personal opinion which might be totally wrong from the original intent.

If you produced a car, must you be there before anyone can be able to ride on such car, what is the essence of the manual and those who are experienced in driving to teach you thill you understand, if you're expecting that Satoshi should think and act as you do, then you're completely wrong because he made bitcoin for everyone to use and is there somewhere probably watching every human efforts and activities towards the adoption of bitcoin, as you can see, people are adopting continuously without having to encounter seeing Satoshi.


Do you still call him unfortunate after all the progress and success and bitcoin never die, you're still in your old mentality and operating on it thinking nothing is wrong.

He also have other things which he plans to achieve, just like he created bitcoin. He does not need to stay focus on bitcoin anymore, because he has created it and left it open for anyone who is interested to work and improve the technology for better security, which we have people doing that already. Moving to other things like he said shows that he gat a lot to do as someone who has great innovation. Bitcoin is speaking for itself and doesn't need any advert.

This is what makes Satoshi mysterious- he always lefts clues behind to the point that there was a designated thread discussing his speech pattern and sentence construction.

In reality, no one truly knows who Satoshi is. Maybe he is a single person doing behind the work; or perhaps Satoshi is a pseudonym for a group of persons or organization, etc. At the end, I really doubt that we would be able to uncover his true identity- not that it matters anyway.

Let's all be thankful that Satoshi created this innovative technology that probably changed the lives of majority of the people who know and take advantage of its uses. It can either be a currency; or as a form of investment.

It's never going to end with Bitcoin, for someone as brilliant as Satoshi, I already expect him to move into something else, could be a new crypto project or something that can benefits the blockchain technology even more, who knows? I never knew this was his last message though, this shows that he could be alive as we speak.

All the privacy was all because of Bitcoin and its decentralized utility, he must leave no trace behind, for Bitcoin to work as intended.

Bitcoin is a beaut on its own but I won't mind having something mind-blowing as Bitcoin from him again, maybe he is already running a different project that we all are familiar with without us knowing it belongs to Satoshi Nakamoto.

What a great time to be alive.

You just made me smile, you made a lot of sense anyway because inventors do introduce things and even die off the surface of the earth not to talk of someone who said he want to focus on other things. So he still wants to be more creative and innovative that is why he wants to try something new.

Sure he has other things to achieve and he must be someone of great intellectual capacity that is why he also want to focus on other things in other to bring more solutions to human's problems. Wish he can create something as innovative as these again so that we can take path in more of his innovations.

That is the most important thing, creating this modern day digital technology is the best thing that happened to anyone in this 21st century because it will surely stand the test of time and our upcoming generations will inherit this innovation and be proud of us that we also took part in it's success too.

People make certain decisions for a certain purpose, and some things are more important than what we want. Besides, I am talking about something that can make people ignore the money aspect while they dedicate themselves to something else. An example is when the previous CoinMarketCap sold it to CZ because he needed to spend more time with his family it is not that he didn't see CMC flourish in the future but his family needed him more.

The reason why Satoshi decided to move to another thing despite knowing the good vision of Bitcoin is something we don't know but I believe it's worth it for him and his family.

I guess you misunderstood the whole situation. Based on what I understood, he meant it's very unfortunate that Satoshi can't be here to answer the question himself, which I see as the OP referring to the situation being unfortunate and not directly meaning that Satoshi is unfortunate; his creation is a success, and no one unless those hypocrites who are looking for every opportunity to criticise bitcoin can use such a word against its creator.

The anonymity of satoshi adds to the mystery and uniqueness of Bitcoin. It adds an extra layer of decentralization that there isn't a location one can narrow the creator to be at. If there was the government could try and mount some pressure on him, invite him for questioning in relation to some bogus allegations just the rattle the network a bit. I would have loved to see him still post here from an anonymous account but we're all satoshi now.

I wonder if he will pop up with a different project under a different pseudonym. Maybe he has.

Actually Satoshi can't answer this question, but I will stand by saying that his work has change the narrative of life as much as human in dealing with currency is concerned and can't be regarded as unfortunate situation as OP used though the unfortunate I don't really know it perspective is referring by the way. He has move to the other side entails allot the state is relative and can be interpreted based on how you view it, until he come to tell us what it means. Pointing with others senairo, like I learnt in my school days Micheal faraday did an incredible things to light that the world enjoy today for humanity despite he did not enjoyed it due to some experiment that leads to his departure as history tells but can't been see as unfortunate because it's sacrifice stand to usher humanity good living. The other side to Satoshi may be more discovery as nothing has state about his been for now.

Satoshi created Bitcoin in such a way that the network no longer needed him, he played his own part before he left this decentralized network. I don't see anything "unfortunate" in what Satoshi did, he created a p2p cash system for people who wanted to control their finances, and made it in such a way that it is the community itself that makes its own decision and not the creator or any central authority. Satoshi may be dead by now, or maybe he did move to develop another project, whichever it is, he has already done so much for lovers of decentralization.

We should stop it. We should stop trying to decipher every statement, punctuation, and anything else left by the creator of Bitcoin. Imagine if there were a 5-minute video clip of him. I imagine how everyone would try to decipher his body posture, his gait, his speech pattern - whether he spoke slowly or quickly, how many times he blinked during the video, if the color of his shirts represented Bitcoin or not, etc. Satoshi left us a fantastic, brilliant project, and that is what he would want all of us to focus on, rather than reading meaning into whatever he wrote in the past.

It might be possible that he wanted to make an excuse just to want authorities to know that he is not more interested in BTC, but as we all are making assumptions no one knows where he is, whether he is alive or not, but what's most important IMHO is if he wants to remain anonymous then we should not wish that someone will leak his information. As we should not leak information about anyone. I know you don't want also but we should respect each other's privacy.

If Satoshi has chosen to remain anonymous then I guess he must have made proper measurement to make that sure, but still many people had tried to call themselves Satoshi but no one succeed to prove that. Well, He should be remain anonymous I mean if he will come again in the view, he become the most famous celebrity I guess and most of the people won't approve that. IFYK

Satoshi's disappearance has not adversely affected the operations of Bitcoin, so there is nothing unfortunate about his decision. Nobody can also confirm that Satoshi is not around and enjoying the benefits of his invention, so your assumption is faulty. Moving on to other things can mean different things and it is only the speaker that can explain his intentions. I think that his disappearance adds to the anonymity feature of Bitcoin.

This is one of the puzzling questions. Satoshi did not disclose to Mike Hean the things he would be moving to, which he mentioned in his message as being in good hands with Gavin Andresen. What he alluded to in his message in April 2011 may indicate that the early important developers of Bitcoin may know these things. But what we assume is just speculation and guesses, of course.

As for Bitcoin, he has given it the lifeblood and its whitepaper, and its development was completed by 2010, and he left the reins to the developers thereafter. Therefore, Satoshi’s disappearance to stay away from the spotlight and media and remaining unknown until now to preserve his privacy is one of the best mysteries he has done. The decentralization he established has succeeded in applying it to himself. It really does not matter that we know about the things that he has moved to, as we now have one of these things that is now known, which is BTC.

Please you guys should not misquote me in the ''unfortunate" word i used in the OP, I wasn't referring to Satoshi Nakamoto as unfortunate but rather i am referring to myself that it is so unfortunate of me that Satoshi is not available to answer my question.

I agree.

He has portrayed what anonymity really is and the mystery of his disappearance could be thought with a lot of things. Maybe for personal matters, he wants to protect himself from being chased by whichever agency that chases people that brilliantly invent good things for the people.

Welp, this is going to be one of the greatest mysteries that will never be solved for the time being. But wherever she/he/they is/are right now, I'm hoping that he has found peace and happy with the success of the project that they've started.

While the government and banks promote centralization, here goes one project maker that have made the top 9 assets in the world currently and disappeared leaving the project in the entire hands of the people.

Even till now, we still don't know what the reason is behind Satoshi's action: why did he stay anonymous, or why did he let go or move on to other things and not focus on the bitcoin project? There's a lot of unanswered questions lingering around the minds of those investing in bitcoin, but because of what he did and his actions, what made bitcoin it is now? I'm not sure if it's part of his plan, but he created a project wherein it doesn't need any pilot, which means the bitcoin seems like it doesn't need any pilot, which means the bitcoin seems like it doesn't need satoshi in order to become powerful and grow. What makes bitcoin right now is because of us, the investors who circulate the marker. Everything happens for a reason, so no matter what satoshi nakamoto's intention or plan is, we don't know, but one thing is for sure: he created bitciin, which gives a lot of opportunity to a lot of people.

If I should ask you, how sure are you that Satoshi really move on to others things? Can someone not just make a clear statement and then go under cover?  How sure are you that Satoshi is not on the forum with a newbie profile?
Satoshi envision that if he is still in the spot light and Bitcoin become a big name that it is today, the government will come for him, so he made a statement and disappeared. His actions was for the good of Bitcoin and Bitcoiners.

BTC/Blockchain was a lifelong project that became a major success. His dream came true, and he won't be back; there's nothing else for him to do.

I think it is pretty fine if that is what Satoshi said last. They do not have to be there to watch everything grow. They’ve done everything they were meant to do and now, it’s only right that it is our turn to do our part. Indeed I believe they saw a good vision of Bitcoin and I have a strong feeling that they are all watching how Bitcoin is turning out. Maybe someday they’ll have cause to return, maybe that’s it.

when satoshi moved on to developing other projects, was bitcoin simply abandoned?
Let's look at Bitcoin today, it has become the main focus in investment even though it was initially doubted and misused by irresponsible individuals as a means of redemption.

but as time progressed and many began to open up to bitcoin, satoshi was very successful in creating bitcoin. We never really know, even Satoshi is very anonymous. If Satoshi is developing another project that is better than Bitcoin, it will certainly make the project more meaningful in the future.

No, it was not abandoned. Bitcoin is a decentralized project and there are developers around the world, who can contribute to this project. After Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared, abandoned the project, he left it to other developers to contribute for Bitcoin developments.

Gavin Andresen (one of ex-admins), Greg (one of forum moderators) and more.

There are many use cases with Bitcoin and people can use Bitcoin blockchain and their bitcoins for different interests and means of payments, asset storage and more in anyway they want. It's freedom, totally free with private keys.

I think the reason he said that was because Bitcoin was gaining too much traction and eventually if he continued to he Public he would of slipped up and his identity might of been revealed.

It was off to a good start and he knew the other devs would continue the development of bitcoin, so he could part ways at the time. I remember when he was against Wikileaks using bitcoin as their payment processor because he knew they would get into hot water with the regulators.

Op understand something here about this statement by Satoshi Nakamoto: ''moved on to other things''. Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency and it been decentralized it will make no true sense that it stays under the watch and control of it's creator Satoshi, Satoshi understood this quite well and had to hand over bitcoin to it community (adoptors)  early enough before it widespread.

If Satoshi was to have control of bitcoin to date and not moving to other things, the core idea of bitcoin decentralization would have been in question. I do believe that this and more other things are Satoshi reason to moving to other things in life.

BTC>I agree with that, like in anarchism: ‘rules without rulers’.

Satoshi's entire personality is shrouded in mystery. What will give you confidence in the answers, OP, from people who can only fantasize about Satoshi’s next step? All discoveries related to Satoshi are only manipulating the community to stir up even greater interest in his figure, but did Satoshi himself want this? And do we need to once again fantasize about these topics?

I think that he just disappeared and he did it for good. He wanted to create a truly decentralized cryptocurrency. Bitcoin can't be fully decentralized if we know who its creator is because in that case, the creator can be bribed, manipulated, or forced. In order for Bitcoin to be decentralized, we shouldn't know who created it, it should be like it came out of nowhere.
Btw no one can tell what he is doing right now since we don't know him but I was always thinking that he might be involved in creation and development of Monero or any other privacy coin. Probably he enjoys life, who knows but what he did, he did for good, that's sure.

Satoshi Nakamoto the inventor of Bitcoin who still remain anonymous till date,he knows the best reason for his disappearance.On my own view he felt like chasing other things and making the platform an open source that will still continue even in his absence because he have made the platform a decentralized one.An inventor always know the future so also Satoshi Nakamoto knew that Bitcoin will still be in existence even in his absence,miners secure/validate transaction in the blockchain network.

There are at least two reasons why Satoshi decided to withdraw into the shadows. The first is that some of his closest collaborators began to question his role when it comes to BTC, wondering if he might be making too many decisions independently, and from what we can read today, in those first days, Satoshi was not as well-liked by some as is the case today.

Another reason is that Satoshi may have realized that Bitcoin will never succeed if it has a centralized figure, so it is logical that he decided to leave everything to others. Anyway, why would it be a tragedy that Satoshi can't answer your questions when the answers already exist, you just have to look for them.

Something interesting to read if you are interested -> what-happened-when-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-disappeared (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/what-happened-when-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-disappeared)

We don't know yet if Satoshi Nakamoto is a group of people or individual so it's hard to determine the identity of this Satoshi cause he left the forum anonymously.  There's a rumors that maybe he is still around using other username. But I don't think so. But only 1 thing I think the most is that maybe  he have a lot Money right now imagine he created the Bitcoin so one thing for sure that he stored a lot of Bitcoin before . But anyways from time to time there's no single users have a proof who is Satoshi Nakamoto is.

Satoshi disappearance is so complicated and beyond our thinking secondly believing what he wrote last is not necessary as no one know who satoshi is, who knows if satoshi still watch and know every detail about bitcoin from the top till date. What do you expect, satoshi should move on and forget about a project like bitcoin totally, unbelievable except bitcoin lack a quality value and no longer serve as a valuble investment choice rather the purpose of creating bitcoin no longer exist like a dumb project but currently bitcoin is worth the sacrifice so I personally don't believe all this

Maybe he moved to other things , you know in life the minor things gives us satisfaction even more than the major things, he might be on another project right now, and even though he moved on to other things the world won't forget what he did with Bitcoin in a hurry, maybe he didn't predict it to be as huge as it is today, but here we are as beneficiaries of his legacy, even when he moved into other things Bitcoin is still making an impact in our different societies today and that's a plus to Satoshi wherever he is.

Yeah, he could just try to change the narrative with what he's really about to do. We don't have any idea where is right now and what he does, if he's still alive or not anymore.

If there is someone that he has entrusted with all of what he's got. His protection is unknown for having this disruption to the world of finance.

He sacrificed himself to retain the reputation of Bitcoin despite there have been a lot of backlash on the early days, and even until now but not about its technicalities anymore but about it being a store of value.

I quite agree with you because maybe he was attracting too many attention from the government and others and for him to achieve his goal means his identity should remain hidden and in other to drive attention away from him was to declare that he has moved on to other things but if he's still alive, I believe one day he will come open by then his aim of creating Bitcoin must have been achieved and at that time, every one will rather be applauding his innovations rather than condemn it.

 Satoshi's disappearance is also a lesson to be learnt because sometimes, it requires anonymity before one can succeed on a course that will attract opinions and criticisms by others because had it been Satoshi was still active and responding to people, he would have been distracted and  would have even given up but since no one knew who he is, it is difficult to trace and i believe that he must still be actively involved in the developing process. It is really hard to believe that he has moved over to other things that may not be Bitcoin related because no one creates something that attracts the attention of the world and just abandon it like that, never.

To us, the adoption of bitcoin worldwide is a good thing however we do not know what Satoshi had in mind. We don’t know what was his goals were and if he thought that bitcoin being this big would come true and if he thought that that was a good thing.

Moving on to other things might mean a lot of things. There are other things in life he may feel required more of his focus and if he declares bitcoin an ending then so be it.

Let's just think positively because we don't know what Satoshi is facing. Maybe he really found something interesting because someone like Satoshi would get excited about discovering new things.
We won't get the answer unless Satoshi shows up and explains why he decided to disappear and hand over Bitcoin to the community. We must respect his decision to disappear at that time.
Maybe it would be better for him because he has provided something useful for all of us. He hopes we can continue what he has started and keep it running.
Maybe one day, Satoshi will appear again but with another anonymous person we know nothing about. Satoshi has given us something that can do good things for us.