On November 12, 2010, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote his last message on Bitcoin Talk. As he told a developer, Nakamoto “had moved on to doing other things.”

Satoshi Nakamoto, pseudonym of the creator of Bitcoin, remains a mystery. Nakamoto sent his last message on the Bitcoin Talk forum In November 2010. The enigmatic developer reported a correction in Bitcoin Core and then made no further public appearances on the internet.

“There is more work to be done in DoS, but I am doing a rapid development of what I have so far in case it is necessary, before venturing to more complex ideas”, were the opening words of that message from Satoshi that would also be the last thing he ever said on the internet.

There, the father of Bitcoin explained a series of changes to the code to avoid DoS (denial of service) attacks. He also indicated that further work on the matter was still required.

The absence of the creator of Bitcoin did not go unnoticed

Satoshi’s absence in cyberspace after that message did not go unnoticed. “Bitcoin Talk” participants wondered if they would hear from him again. “I don’t know anything about Satoshi. Did anyone know him? I mean seeing it day by day. He could have won the lottery, died, or been in a coma,” no one exactly knows what to say about him because he remains unknown to everyone.

Some emails that Nakamoto sent to some of the developers of the Bitcoin code before and after his public disappearance came to light recently. Anyone can read these messages in the compilation The Book of Satoshi.

The last person to have a private exchange with him was Gavin Andresen. This developer decided that he would only publicly share the last email he received from Satoshi, dated April 26, 2011:

I wish you did not keep talking about me as a mysterious shadowy figure; the press just treats bitcoin as some kind of pirate coin. Instead, you could put more emphasis on the idea that it is an open-source project and give more emphasis to the contributions of your collaborators, which would help motivate them.

Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin

A lot of things have made Bitcoin evolve since then without the guidance of Satoshi Nakamoto: SegWit, Lightning Network, side chains, halvings, and proposals for improvement, agreements, disagreements, forks, and the emergence of other cryptocurrencies, massive creation of exchanges, institutional investments, and increase of the price.

Behind all this, the essence of Bitcoin that Satoshi Nakamoto established remains intact, he kept this “peer-to-peer system of electronic money” exactly as he imagined.

Satoshi stated in the Bitcoin whitepaper on November 1, 2008, that this cryptocurrency allows “online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without having to go through a financial institution.”

“You could start in a narrow niche like reward points, donation tokens, currencies for a game, or micro-payments for adult sites. It can be used initially in proof of work applications for services that could almost be free, but not entirely.” Said Satoshi Nakamoto on January 17, 2009.

By: Jenson Nuñez

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