Gavin Andresen Blog
Gavin Andresen recalls working with Satoshi
Gavin Andresen, who was given commit access to Bitcoin by Satoshi and became the lead developer, recalls his interactions with Satoshi and the transition of leadership.
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Riski Wiki
Satoshi's final known emails — farewell to Hearn, alert key to Andresen
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.
Plan99 (Mike Hearn) 4 messages
Satoshi ↔ Mike Hearn — Holding Coins & Farewell
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.
BitcoinTalk
Development process straw-man
Gavin Andresen publicly announces taking on active project management for Bitcoin with Satoshi's blessing, creating the bitcoin/bitcoin GitHub staging tree and proposing a development process.
BitcoinTalk
Andresen announces taking over Bitcoin project management (December 19, 2010)
Gavin Andresen announces on BitcoinTalk topic 2367 he is taking over active project management of Bitcoin with Satoshi's blessing. Same day, he creates the bitcoin/bitcoin GitHub repo.
Wikipedia
Satoshi tells Andresen he is working on other projects (September 2010)
In September 2010, Satoshi privately tells Andresen he is working on other projects — the earliest documented signal of his intent to step back. He soon handed Andresen the repository and alert key.