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Gavin Andresen replies to Satoshi's final email, accepting the alert key and disclosing that he has been invited to present Bitcoin to US intelligence agencies. Satoshi never replies to this message.
Satoshi's final known private messages: April 23, 2011 to Mike Hearn — "in good hands with Gavin." April 26 to Andresen, transferring the alert key and saying he would probably be unavailable.
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.
Andresen replies to Satoshi's alert-key email, accepts the key, and discloses that In-Q-Tel has invited him to present Bitcoin to US intelligence agencies. Satoshi never replied.
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.