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In a CoinGeek interview, Mike Hearn offers rare reflections on Satoshi's personality — observing he enjoyed experimenting but appeared to grow frustrated when evangelical personalities arrived.
Mike Hearn publishes his private email correspondence with Satoshi Nakamoto, providing valuable insights into Satoshi's thinking about Bitcoin's technical future.
Benjamin Wallace's Wired feature — an early major mainstream article on Bitcoin. Traces the whitepaper, mining boom, Mt. Gox hack, and growing pains, ending with Garzik's "We really don't care."
Gavin Andresen announces he has been invited to give a presentation about Bitcoin at the CIA, which may have contributed to Satoshi's subsequent withdrawal from the project.
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.
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.
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.
Mike Hearn's private email correspondence with Satoshi Nakamoto, in which Satoshi stated he had 'moved on to other things' and that Bitcoin was 'in good hands with Gavin and everyone.'
Mike Hearn offers to write a wiki page on Bitcoin contracts, asks about re-enabling transaction replacement, asks if Satoshi plans to rejoin, and raises the tragedy-of-the-commons concern on fees.
One of the first major print magazine features on Bitcoin. Greenberg interviews Andresen, who calls Bitcoin "better gold than gold." Satoshi's withdrawal signals predate it by seven months.
Satoshi's last email in the Malmi archive (Feb 22, 2011). Reply to Gavin (Martti in third person), handing over the bitcoin-list mailman password as PGP blocks to each.
Fragment of Gavin's private message to Satoshi on the 0.3.20 release thread, asking for bitcoin-list posting permission or the encrypted mailman password. Surviving text only — reply-quote in #260.
Satoshi's last known public post on BitcoinTalk. He discusses software updates and then disappears from public communication.
One of Satoshi's last posts. After WikiLeaks begins accepting Bitcoin donations, Satoshi expresses concern that Bitcoin has 'kicked the hornet's nest' too early.
Unidentified individual or group who authored the Bitcoin white paper (October 31, 2008), wrote the software, mined the genesis block, and guided early development before disappearing in April 2011.