lets play a game
Q: Satoshi, what do you think of the lightning network? What do you think is next?
itsa a niche servie network for certain use-case. but not to be seen as the replacement for bitcoin. back before inventing bitcoin(blockchains) the cypherpunks were runing into many many problems with accounting and auditing value and any network that does not have a network wide audit system like a blockchain does. is going to fall into old problems. LN is not a future feature or new, its actually backwards and old.
even after 5 years its not really a working system, bitcoin however worked right from the start and adopted alot of people within a couple years. LN has failed to meet bitcoin standards after 5 years. use at your own risk and learn its risk. its not bitcoin and not as secure as bitcoin
Q: Do you think the Metaverse will help or harm privacy or personal freedoms? Is it something we should be worried about?
metaverse is just a virtual shopping mall. much like an old bitcoin game 'dragon's tale' had a virtual character you can move around a landscape and buy things/gamble on things within the landscape.
i am just a little dissmayed that no one tried to take the dragon's tale platform and expand it into a more feature rich virtual landscape that offered retail propositions.
metaverse is however preferring to use ethereum based tokens/currencies, which could leave bitcoin behind and not seen as the 'main' crypto
Q: Why did you disappear in 2011? What have you done for the past decade?
many people had good idea's of moving bitcoin forward, many people were finding bugs and my involvement was not needed daily. however people were demanding me to make the ultimate decisions of what should and shouldnt be added, making me a central point. i felt that people could make up their own minds and do their own edits and upgrades without me, as that was the point of bitcoin. so i steeped back