Why did you let Craig Wright claim to be you for a stretch?
Satoshi is among us. He/She/They just can't announce it...imagine how easily it would fuck things up. If there were one person to praise or blame for bitcoin (depending on your perspective) there would be chaos in the market.
It must be wonderful to be Satoshi. To be able to see this thing they created and how it has evolved and flourished AND have the peace to be able to live life without the scrutiny or attention that being Satoshi would bring. Perhaps the only challenge is the uber amounts of coin that exists in wallets known to be Satoshi's that can really never be touched without the entire community discussing it. I'm sure Satoshi has other wallets, other stashes, etc.
But i'm not sure what takes more self control - not touching the wealth in those wallets or not announcing to the world that you are Satoshi.
I agree, partiality, but I agree in spirit.
I do believe that Satoshi is alive. Unless he was like, 80 when he made this, there is no reason why he should he dead. It's been less than a decade; he would not make his opus so late in life.
But his silence is telling.
Why hasn't he came back? And with how we have fucked up his grand vision with our greed and partisan ways, more importantly why would he come back? His brain child, a singular entity, has been split in twain. Instead of advancing the protocol for the good of all, we have stupidly split into factions, spoiling the Democratic ideal he set in place. Our current state, a divided community, certainly isn't what he intended. We have let our nature get the best of us, our human nature, and in my opinion, we have ruined a noble thing with our greed. I am just as complicit; perhaps even more complicit than most because I have been here longer. These forks aren't the answer. We need to reach consensus, dammit. This bickering only hurts us all, as we erode the trust we fought for so hard, after all these years.
If I were Satoshi, bitcoin, in its current state, would be dead to me.
It's not too late. We need to fix this. But the solutions we are fielding right now, don't do that. They are a bandaid over a mortal wound.