Quote from: buwaytress on Today at 11:34:02 AM

It doesn't matter what you think of Assange or WikiLeaks, I just thought it might be interesting to see how Bitcoiners today view the whole saga of 14 years, if at all they consider it.

Worth pointing out that the beginning of satoshi's exit began with Wikileaks.

Quote from: satoshi on December 11, 2010, 11:39:16 PM

It would have been nice to get this attention in any other context. WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet's nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.

As governments began shutting down funding routes to WL, Bitcoin provided an alternative. When the PC World article came out, this forum crashed from the number of new visitors coming to find out about Bitcoin.

I don't know how exactly it all happened, but I understand some (self-styled) cypherpunks and crypto anarchists helped set up WL to receive Bitcoin and that really has been what's kept the organisation alive all these years. I spoke to one myself, but they aren't a Bitcoin maximalist today, so I know not everyone stayed on the same path.

Yesterday, The Times put WL's Bitcoin "war chest" at 4,000 BTC.

Thanks OP for this information. I am just reading about the Assange and Wikileaks saga for the first. This makes a whole lot of sense now, I have always thought Satoshi disappeared because he needed some privacy and probably give room for bitcoin to be used in a decentralized way without him/her/them interfering from time to time.

Now it is clear, Satoshi must be avoiding some sort of pressure from the government and those who weren't in support of the invention as at that time.