speaking of the cia...i believe that satoshi was in fact the cia or some other such secret agency...he/they disappeared because the purpose was served...that being the introduction of a form of currency that is totally traceable...and better yet, it is believed to be to be anonymous by the avg retard...ask yourself how useful this can be in the not-so-distant dystopian future...i have a dollar bill in my pocket...can u tell me everywhere its ever been simply by running a piece of software...nope...some day ppl in the tech world will realize that anything that is "privacy" oriented is not only easily hackable by the powers-that-be (with an unlimited budget) but was probably developed by those same powers to give privacy seekers a false sense of security