Crypto Crowley

25/25 At the end of the day, I think Hal had some other small contributor early on who left the project. But the bulk of Satoshi was him. By 2010 he knew he was dying and "Bitcoin dev" dies would kill his beloved project. So Satoshi disappeared, and Hal rejoined, contributing as much as he could in his deteriorating state. He transferred his coins to cold wallets, set aside for his kids and future generations, and let others take up the mantle of being Bitcoin, and in a way being Satoshi. He fiercely hid his identity, after seeing his old boss Zimmerman almost charged with arms dealing charges, over encryption code that Finney himself wrote. So from the start he changed his writing style, referenced British things, but still couldn't hide his lack of knowledge of the EEA/EU in private conversations. Maybe Dorian was the early contributor that send BTC while Hal was out for a run. Or maybe he was just a local name Hal chose to use thinking Bitcoin would never be at this scale. In one of his last ever posts, Hal himself says of Satoshi "How do you find someone who has spent a lifetime covering his tracks" It wasn't until 2014 that we knew just how big a part Hal had played in PGP 2.0 after all. Even by comparing code, many wouldn't have guessed how much of it was Hal. Maxi's don't like the narrative that Hal was Satoshi; because Hal was progressive in what Bitcoin could become. He wanted it to be greener, he was supportive of forks, of a BitDNS, zerocoins, and using the OP_PUSHDATA for other protocols on top of Bitcoin. That doesn't fit with the never change Bitcoin maxi narrative. But Hal was a big dreamer and a smart guy, who saw what this could be, rather than what it is. While some people never want to know Satoshi is, and think it ruins the "We are all Satoshi" messaging, I disagree. Satoshi is less interesting to me if he is an anonymous persona who died, or got captured, or a shutdown government program. Leaving Bitcoin to rust and it only being saved by others. Satoshi is very interesting to me, if he had the foresight and humility to kill off his persona so that it could live. I think its the latter, and I think it's all because of Hal. In his act of stepping back, he made Bitcoin something everyone owns. He made everyone Satoshi. That little decision, is something no other pure PoW coin could ever duplicate. That moment defined Bitcoin. Not by giving it a leader. But by giving it a soul. The soul of a ghost, who never quite fit in.

5/5 Moral: -Don't do institutional private rounds/OTC -Sell via exchanges -Distribute via protocol natively -Fuck you Gensler. Win.