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In August 2010 a forum user asked whether Satoshi could withstand torture for Bitcoin's alert key. What the key could do, whose hands its copies reached, and how it left the network by 2018.
Statistical analysis of Satoshi's Bitcoin source (v0.1.0–v0.3.19): coding-style fingerprint, commit times suggesting EST/CST, growth from 19,901 to 31,909 lines over 23 months, final-commit traits.
No single day handed Bitcoin to Gavin Andresen: his own commits from October 11, a server-admin pick on December 3, Satoshi's last post on December 12, and his December 19 announcement.
Satoshi's last known private email. He transfers the Bitcoin network alert key to Gavin Andresen, asks him to stop portraying him as a 'mysterious shadowy figure,' and says he has moved on.