Hello everyone, I am Mr. K, what we are going to talk about today is: "The Disappearance of Satoshi Nakamoto"?

We all know that Satoshi Nakamoto is the founder of Bitcoin. This ID first appeared on the mailing list of the "cypherpunk" forum. At that time, there were only a few lines of information: Satoshi Nakamoto, born on April 5, 1975, Japanese, male. It was not until Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper in 2008 that this ID was widely noticed by cypherpunks.

After Satoshi Nakamoto created the Bitcoin system, for a long time, he discussed the technical update and development direction of Bitcoin with technical fellows on the Bitcointalk forum. However, the occurrence of one incident broke the peace of the Bitcoin world and prompted the disappearance of Satoshi Nakamoto, and this incident is the famous "WikiLeaks" incident.

The incident happened in December 2010. At that time, there was a non-profit media organization called "WikiLeaks". The main purpose of this organization was to expose the inside information of enterprises and governments through insiders, so that they could operate completely transparently. Originally, the starting point of this organization was very good, but the reality often backfired.

On December 5, 2010, the organization angered the U.S. government by leaking U.S. diplomatic cables. The U.S. government has stopped all its traditional financial donation channels such as credit cards and bank cards. Faced with the problem of losing his source of income, Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who is also a cypherpunk, announced that he will use Bitcoin as a channel for accepting donations.

This is the largest single payment transaction since the birth of Bitcoin, and the Bitcoin community cheered. However, Satoshi Nakamoto strongly opposed it. In Satoshi Nakamoto's view, the Bitcoin system at that time was still in a stage of development, and it was naturally unwise to attract the attention of a powerful government like the United States in the early stages of development. choose. For this reason, he also stated on the Bitcointalk forum: "In any other situation, it is a good thing that Bitcoin attracts people's attention, but WikiLeaks has poked a hornet's nest, and the swarm is flying towards us."

For security reasons, on December 12, 2010, there was no farewell. After Satoshi Nakamoto answered the remedial solution for Bitcoin version 0.3.19 on Bitcointalk, he never appeared on the forum again. However, at this time, Satoshi Nakamoto did not completely leave the world of Bitcoin. He handed over the code management of Bitcoin to Gavin Andresen, and kept in touch with him for a period of time, hoping that he would further decentralize the development power.

On April 26, 2011, Gavin Andresen received the last email from Satoshi Nakamoto. At that time, Satoshi Nakamoto learned that Gavin would be invited to participate in an event organized by an organization affiliated with the CIA. myth. Compared to him, Gavin should talk more about Bitcoin as an open source project, which can give developers more trust.

But this still wasn’t Satoshi’s last email. In March 2014, the media discovered a computer engineer whose real name was Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto (translation: Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto) and mistook him for Satoshi Nakamoto. Afterwards, poor Dorian was watched by the whole world and was unbearable. It disturbs. At this time, Satoshi Nakamoto sent his last email, saying: "I am not Dorian". This letter saves Dorian.

Later, Satoshi Nakamoto’s address sent several emails one after another, but the content was to intimidate the recipients and ask for money. Everyone infers that Satoshi Nakamoto's mailbox should have been compromised by hackers. Since then, people have completely lost the news of Satoshi Nakamoto, and Satoshi Nakamoto has completely become a mystery.

Today, there are different opinions on the reasons why Satoshi Nakamoto left. Some people say that it was because Bitcoin was ready to bid farewell to its founder, and some people say that Satoshi Nakamoto did not want to get burned, but no matter what the reasons behind it are, Satoshi Nakamoto has completed the mission entrusted to him by the times, bringing Bitcoin and blockchain to the world, and they will also set off waves that will change the world in the future.

Thanks to Teacher Liu Changyong for his help and guidance on the content of this episode.

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