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Quote from: wallet4bitcoin on January 18, 2024, 11:37:02 PM

Quote from: Keawe on January 18, 2024, 07:30:00 PM

I've been watching and reading a great deal about the individual who started the whole Bitcoin network. It seems that Satoshi Nakamoto vanished shortly after Gavin Andresen replied with an email to Satoshi that he (Gavin) was going to visit with the CIA. Almost like something out of a Hollywood movie and Satoshi disappeared just after the email? BTC

Satoshi Nakamoto made the best decision by going anonymous and disappearing into the thin air. If not for those decisions, the events of SEC and Feds generally will have targeted him and made him to shut down the network he built.

We have to admit that he remains a legend in his choice of approach towards achieving Bitcoin network and currency even though he has to be gone forever

Can Satoshi shut down bitcoin? Although he is its creator, I think he does not have enough authority to shut down bitcoin. Bitcoin is owned by the entire community and shutting it down requires consensus from everyone. So even if Satoshi existed, the government, FBI, and CIA would not be able to change bitcoin. It's good for him that he's anonymous, otherwise he'd be accused of creating bitcoin, a decentralized currency that makes it very difficult for governments to control it.

Yes, I also think like that, nothing can stop Bitcoin's growth, let alone close it, unless the end of the world has come. Apart from that, I think Satoshi Nakamoto is not necessarily just one person, but rather a small team behind him in the past. Even if there is someone currently holding the most Bitcoin, I don't think he should tell because Secret is good at this. let alone Satoshi Nakamoto, he prefers not to be named. Because from the beginning the principle of bitcoin was anonymity, freedom. So it's not surprising that there are so many questions like this now that we as a crypto community need to stop. The essence of Bitcoin is that there is no single leader, but people are constantly looking to pin it on someone. Just look a few times, many people claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto.