Or was it Gavin's visit to the CIA or health problems or a recognition that his influence was shrinking as things picked up steam or did he get more interested in turning a wheel for a model train?  Or some combination.  Whether Dorian is Satoshi or not, he probably did have at least a working familiarity with the inteligence apparatus of the U.S.


LOL!  Whoever Satoshi is he probably knew what he was doing and had at least a strong sense that he was playing with fire.  Nowhere is it more fitting then here to use the phrase "If you cannot stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen."  I guess he considered it and did vacate the kitchen.

I'll bet that the NSA has known who Satoshi is even before the Wikilieaks thing, and certainly they did afterwards.  And that Satoshi was fully aware of this.  Only a fool would believe that doing an end-run around the efforts to get PayPal and Visa to prostitute themselves for Uncle Sam would bring significant scrutiny.  Whatever Satoshi felt about Wikileaks he certainly seemed to recognize this.  He was probably as amazed as I was that the solution survived given the relatively early stage of it's development and the dismal level of stress-testing and QA that the community tends to muster.