Quote from: franky1 on Today at 04:02:56 PM

i am just a little dismayed 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

Quote from: kaggie on Today at 03:43:43 PM

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 CODING/bug fixing involvement was not needed daily. however people were demanding me POLITICALLY 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

Satoshi gets snarky! I enjoyed reading those responses though.

The last paragraph is very believable though. I can't imagine the stress of trying to do something like this, open-source, and maintain leadership on a project intended to not have a leader. Being anonymous must not have helped, and I'm sure you had to make a choice: step out and become that leader, in which case everything depends on you regardless of your personal circumstances, or take a step back and see whether the community can survive and thrive -- which it did.

Bold move, and it paid off, amazingly. So, good job. I'm sure I'll think up another question for you later, but maybe others have questions too.