Why has Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared???

[Vortex20000]

What is more powerful: a leader, or a legend?

Which draws more attention: a normal person, or a mystery?

In some ways, Satoshi was very smart. It's partly because of his disappearance that bitcoin has done so well.

Then again, there are many stories. Is he dead? Is he not one person but a whole organisation? Does he exist?

[PangPang]

Satoshi has re-appeared on Mar 2014, and made a post on the P2P Foundation with his old account.
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-source

[Mybitcoinz]

Maybe he has lost his private keys and is disappeared because he was too much ashamed.

[AirFlame]

He is a ninja and need to stay in shadow the day will come when he strikes again

[MichaelBliss]

Because "Satoshi" works for an intelligence agency maybe, and revealing their identity was never part of the plan?   

[Sonny]

Anybody got any idea?Why doesn't the organization or person reveal itself?Why doesn't he work for it anymore?

Why should he reveal his own identity now?
He doesn't need money (he has lots of bitcoin untouched).
He doesn't need fame (If he wants to get famous, he would have revealed himself long time ago).

If he reveals his identity, he would probably never enjoy a peaceful life anymore.

[Malok]

Lets reverse the question:

Why should he want to be visible/high profile?  What advantage does that provide him?


Its not like he can be "Bitcoin President of the World" or some such for huge political gain.  And its very unlikely that he's going to get huge endorsement deals from Nike.

[DhaniBoy]

i really do not  know who satoshi nakamoto, and why he makes bitcoin ...
maybe it can explain why has satoshi nakamoto disappeared ...
hopefully there are some one can explain this ...

[Rapidx]

For It's own safety, imagine if people would know satoshi nakamoto, some people might even encroach to his life because he could make them a lot of money with bitcoin and It doesn't have any laws, so no one would do anything.

[RogerBTCrabbyt]

He wants privacy.

[Hash Master]

If you could do shitload amount of money without revealing your true identity, wouldn't you do the same? I totally would.

[FuckItWhatever]

Hide your wealth and hide yourself, he is living the life.

[routecrypto]

Nobody knows why he was disappeared, there are only assumptions, maybe he has lost the private keys?

[hilmy]

He wants privacy.

I'm agree with this, for now bitcoins is running handle by many nodes, blockchain, etc. just because his not fully handle bitcoin for now.
i think that, CMIIW 

[Testing123]

Nobody knows why he was disappeared, there are only assumptions, maybe he has lost the private keys?

Unlikely. A person smart enough to create bitcoin should be smart enough to make backups.
Also even if he lost his private keys, he could still log in his bitcointalk account if he wants to. But he didn't and simply disappeared.

[FuckItWhatever]

Satoshi will be back when we need it, just like Batman.