13 years ago on this day, Satoshi Nakamoto published his last public message

Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, published his last public post on December 12, 2010 (21 December 2009) in the Bitcoin Talk forum. In this post, he said that “more work needs to be done to improve Bitcoin’s security against DoS attacks”. However, Nakamoto was also in contact with several Bitcoin developers shortly thereafter, including Gavin Andersen and Mike Hearn.

A December 12, 2010 post on the Bitcoin Talk forum is Nakamoto’s last public message. However, evidence suggests that he sent his last private message shortly after this post, to a developer named Mike Hearn. In this message, which was sent in the form of an email, Nakamoto said that he is comfortable with Bitcoin and will go to work on other projects.

Therefore, it can be said that Nakamoto has left the digital currency community on April 23, 2011 (May 6, 2011) by sending this farewell message. He said in this email:

I started working on other projects.

Over the past years, Bitcoin has grown from an unknown and dubious project to a financial asset with a market value of one trillion dollars, attracting the attention of governments, financial institutions, investors and companies. Despite dozens of possible theories, Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity remains obscure, and the estimated one million bitcoins he owns remain unaccounted for.

Satoshi Nakamoto’s wealth is estimated to be more than 42 billion dollars at the current price of 42,300 dollars of Bitcoin. With the price of Bitcoin reaching $68,789 in November 2021 (Aban 1400), he could be on the list of the 20 richest people in the world.

The mystery surrounding Satoshi Nakamoto was the subject of an interview by Cointelegraph with Dustin D. Trammell in 2021. Trammell is one of the first cypherpunks to mine Bitcoin. In the interview, Trammell said it was unlikely that Nakamoto had worked on any other electronic money protocol before Bitcoin. He raised this issue considering Nakamoto’s lack of bias in using new technologies.

He explained:

In retrospect, it seems that Satoshi was not looking to solve a technical problem, but rather a social concern. He had a structural problem with the traditional financial system. At that point, he was focused on the issue of technology; Therefore, there is a possibility that some philosophical points have been ignored or considered undervalued and not enough attention has been paid to it.

Although Bitcoin has yet to live up to all the expectations set forth in the original 2008 whitepaper, its proven monetary policy makes it an attractive store of value. At present, the interpretation of Bitcoin as “digital gold” has become popular among investors. It is unclear if Satoshi Nakamoto will appear again, or if he is still alive at all. The important point is that the digital currency community has come to terms with the issue of the anonymity of its founder.