communicated with users via email — but never by phone or in person. Then, in 2011, .. the emails stopped.
not only emails but MULTIPLE forums...
.. i guess the research must be really really lacking in the article
If you research it you will find Satoshi disappeared after Gavin announced he was going to the CIA headquarters to give them a presentation about Bitcoin. It's no wonder he shit himself and ran away, I guess most people would have done the same thing in his position.
The old CIA post's thread is now locked, but here's the
link.