"For about 2 and 1/2 years, from late 2008 through the spring of 2011, Satoshi was very active. He wrote thousands of forum posts and emails. He corresponded with the early developers who joined the project. He patiently answered questions, fixed bugs, refined the code, defended the design choices."

… ery well-unded investigation, every podcast theorist, nobody knows. The name was obviously a pseudonym. Could have been one person, could have been a group, could have been a man, could have been a woman, could have been American, British Japanese European every theory has been investigated and every theory has hit a wall. What we do know is this. For about 2 and 1/2 years, from late 2008 through the spring of 2011, Satoshi was very active. He wrote thousands of forum posts and emails. He corresponded with the early developers who joined the project. He patiently answered questions, fixed bugs, refined the code, defended the design choices. By all accounts of people who interacted with him, he was absolutely brilliant, polite, and almost obsessively focused on getting the protocol right. And then on April 23rd of 2011, sent his final known email to a developer named Mike Hearn. And the email said, and I'm quoting directly, I've moved on to other things. It's in good hands with Gavin …

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