I just have a question, what did the US government do to find Satoshi Nakamoto? Did they contact people who were in touch with Satoshi? Did they contact to Theymos, Sirius or Cobra? Satoshi is a very mysterious for me. I have a feeling like government isn't interested in him, probably?
Who knows what efforts were made, if any. And why would you believe someone who told you, yes, I was contacted by (insert three letter agency) or no, they never contacted me?
But I am very surprised that governments didn't try to find him earlier because it's impossible to not see the threat of Bitcoin for governments...
Satoshi disappeared quite early. Bitcoin was still a geek invention that computer geeks and cypherpunk used. No one could predict how big of a popularity it would gain.
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No one knows exactly what efforts were made but something would be leaked or someone would be frightened, those who had contact or some kind of communication with him
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The number of people who were online and more specifically, were programmers and had deep knowledge of computer, were pretty limited back in 2008. Besides that, Satoshi was active on this forum for about a year. He had GMX email, he was also active on sourceforge. I mean, this man would be easy to find back then if they wanted.
Satoshi is a top level mystery, guy disappeared out of nowhere and doesn't ever return. I just can't believe the existence of this level of mystery and disappearance.