Satoshi ↔ Gavin Andresen Correspondence
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.
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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 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.
One of Satoshi's last known communications. He tells Mike Hearn he has moved on to other things and that Bitcoin is in good hands with Gavin and everyone.
One of the first major print magazine features on Bitcoin. Greenberg interviews Andresen, who calls Bitcoin "better gold than gold." The mainstream attention may have driven Satoshi's withdrawal.
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 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.
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.
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.'
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.