So today, April 23, 2026, marks exactly 15 years since Satoshi sent that email to Mike Hearn on April 23, 2011. In that message, he mentioned he moved on to other things, and that was his last known public communication. After that, he just vanished. As far as I know, Satoshi Nakamoto hasn't said anything publicly since then.
Honestly, I’m really curious about what those "other things" could be. We haven’t seen anything that compares to Bitcoin in the crypto space, right? When he said Bitcoin was in good hands, does that mean he thought everything was wrapped up and the rest could be managed by others? Or did he just go on to focus on life outside of crypto? It’s wild because Bitcoin is still at the top and probably will be for a long time.
What do you all think about this?
Thought could be, he moved on to other things personal to him.
"I've moved on to other things" was a private message to Mike Hearn which was made public, nobody knows who else he told more things but they never disclose to the public. Even after leaving, I think there was a few people still in reach with Satoshi, I'm sure he moved on to real life business and not to found another project.
Just as we do not know who Satoshi is, we do not know the other things he moved on to. Maybe it is a about privacy coin like monero or the one that was created when satoshi said he has moved on to other things.
I do not care about the other things because only bitcoin is what Satoshi wants us to know about him and we should not be bothered to know answers to everything.
Wrong.
Wrong. It is clear that both of you and including OP have no clue what secops is, and what a person or collective such as satoshi that had mastered it so well would do. You do not say things you mean, why would you? You say all sorts of misdirection in order to leave digital crumb trails that do not lead to anything. While some people for example have dissected the name satoshi in thousands of ways to find different patterns and meaning in it, the name could have been deliberately chosen because it has no relevance at all to him. If I as an American do not want to be found by anyone ever, I will come online with something completely different and unrelated to me. While a generic statement of "other things" can mean anything at all and therefore could always be seen as correct and not as misdirection -- you would be missing the point. It is a misdirection as it distract from the real reason that he left.
He most likely left because Gavin is a corrupt individual who started having ties to the CIA. Had he stayed longer after this, he would have ended up being exposed one way or another. As they started having a close working relationship together, and other individuals, the chance that someone would send him something that included malicious code has grown exponentially. You can't defend yourself against every single threat unless you do not install, download or open anything at all -- but you can't work with others in this way. If you understood situations like this accurately, there was not a single valid reason for Gavin to go and talk to the CIA -- he could have just ignored them or said no, yet he went.
This is another complete mystery on what other things he moves on, but its really great that he managed to succeed to deploy Bitcoin first before he decide to leave. We don't know on what other things he work on and for what we are reading here people will get curious to know the other things done by Satoshi.
Well its good to focus on Bitcoin, but I'm also curious to know the other activities done by Satoshi. But it seems its impossible for us to know that, since even by now nobody still could locate the real identity of the great Satoshi Nakamoto.
Feels a bit like speculation to me. We really dont know why Satoshi left, but staying anonymous long term does make sense. In the end Bitcoin kept running fine, even for things like bitcoin betting where people just use it.
It's important to note that I'm not relying on this email to base my conclusion on why Satoshi stopped being active under his name or other of his personal things associated with his name. There are couple of more reliable channels, especially the public and decentralized ones, like his bitcoin address, to rely more on in this case. None, as far as I can tell, has been active ever since he stopped being active under his name or other things associated with it.
To understand what likely happened to him, you need to study what happens to developers or owners of so-called non licensed crypto exchanges that probably got used for something fiat governments typically consider illegal or against their national interest/security. The developers/owners are sent strong warning to stop operations or handover to more controlled individuals or people. Then for the fear of consequences, they cave in to the threats even though they could just continue operating covertly without being detected... But this will most likely work more for legitimate or moral platforms/systems.
Fortunately Bitcoin is very decentralized, permissionless, trustless and legitimate, this partly works to prevent it from being controlled or captured by fiat governments. If the control groups are compromised they could easily be removed or their work rejected.
How exactly do we tell which other thing he moved on to since her clearly didn't state any clue. Even if satoshi were to invent something else new other than BTC we still won't tell if it was the same satoshi as the previous one( except he signs one of his bitcoin wallet).. to Satoshi, he already saw Bitcoins perfection and knew that the community would be able to handle it without his presence. Other things he said could be personal( he could be sick and needed to spend time with his family or loved ones using the remaining time he had).
No speculation is involved, only reasoning based on the evidence at hand. If you had any experience with secops you would know what this is. The hardest man to find leaves soon after a CIA meeting, that indeed sounds totally speculative compared to "he went to work on another privacy project" or on "personal matters". Please refrain from using a normie brain for analyzing things that you know nothing about. At the very least you would need to have in depth knowledge as to how such individuals behave and what methods they use to know anything at all, preferably you would be living such a life and only then could you accurately reason about any of this.
They are not more reliable. Coins moving from "his addresses" are not an indication that satoshi did anything. Neither is there proof that they are satoshi's coins, nor is there proof that he has keys to them, nor is there proof that someone else has not gotten the keys to them. All of that is made up nonsense that you believe is "proof". If I somehow, through whatever means, move coins (or sign messages) from one of satoshi's alleged addresses that will mean that I, Satofan44, am satoshi? A person would have to be really fucking stupid to believe something like that.
This is not proof that someone is "satoshi". It is merely proof that someone has access to keys that allegedly belonged to satoshi. It can never be proof for anything more than that.
I believe, yes, bitcoin is completed and since Satoshi mentioned it's in good hands, he transferred the key responsibilities to Gavin.
He was indeed a trusted person in the bitcoin space back then until he started supporting Craig Wright in 2016.
What Satoshi moved on to, will always remain a mystery just like his identity and I guess, we're better off with how it is.
Bitcoin is decentralized and that is what matters the most. There's no censorship to it.
I don't agree all with you because Bitcoin has not been completed. There are actually many technical things have been developed and upgraded since that email from Satoshi Nakamoto and the disappearance of the founder. His decision to disappear is very good, because it gives Bitcoin project to the community so that it makes the project more decentralized.
Since that day, there has been no intention of looking for opinion and action from Satoshi Nakamoto on any Bitcoin upgrades.
I think he simply created a lot of coins; he had another type of job, and Bitcoin was just a hobby for him. Or perhaps the real reason is that he simply saw that Bitcoin was already in good hands and that his contribution would be a centralized vote in future decisions. That is, imagine if, in the Bitcoin Cash era, Satoshi had said, "I join that idea." Perhaps Bitcoin wouldn't be what it is today. Satoshi was the creator, and he did well to remain in the shadows. His opinion regarding the system might have been the reason for decisions that affected the consensus.
That's what I thought about, it's his personal life and if he wanted to make it known he would've stated what he's moving on to or give hints so people could figure it out. Personally I would've love to know his next inventions but on a second thought, he kept it secret for a reasom and i could be waste of time trying to figure it out.
You've raised another important point, creating something like Bitcoin would take much of his time and attention from his family so there's chances that he needed more time with them or more time to leave a normal life like everyone else, hopefully he's not sick but out there living his life the best way he can.
Based on that message, it's very unlikely that he died suddenly, because he clearly planned to step away from the community.
Recall that only two things explain why "Satoshi" didn't ever cash in a single sat:
A. That he died suddenly.
B. That he was CIA/NSA/DARPA/etc. i.e. an employee of the US government which would make any sort of financial transaction bureaucratically impossible.
That message is a very, very strong signal that it was not option A.
I am curious, do you know Satoshi? Are you close to him to utter such things? Or are you him (Satoshi) to say in most certainty that what you are saying is actually what satoshi is thinking. If you are not him, while you point people statement as speculation but your statement yourself is speculation on its own, is it not? Just asking..
Maybe something totally unrelated to crypto as well. His was open minded, probably looking at many different things he could contribute.
I got curious about this as well... what could that be?
It could indeed be monero or something like that as well.
As we know the name Satoshi to be an alias and maybe not even a true name of a person, it would be sane to say Satoshi changed identity and may even be living in the free world as any regular guy probably in a tech company or developer where other projects are being developed.
No one really knows who or what Satoshi is and what he may likely be up to, so this question is simply hypothetical and rhetorical to even begin with.
He already chose to distance himself from the community before this response as can be seen in the image.
I have moved on to other things simply means Bitcoin isn't a priority anymore for whatever reason
So to me moving on to other things Is like him saying
I won't be around anymore.
Well the highest we can do is speculate with the little data we can gather.
I think he wanted to focus on his family haha, or maybe to work on something else because I know when people are spending so much time in this industry, they are not stopping after one project they keep working, learning and testing but so far we have not heard anything from the founder but maybe one day he will come up with some nicer than BTC, I hope that day will never come haha because if it did then my stash going to value zero.
He definitely means in good developer's hand that he has set the foundation and no one has to work from the start and anyone knows Java could contribute like the developers who are now working to make it quantum resistant.
I find it funny that some people on this Topic think they have the ultimate undeniable answer when the answer could be surprisingly simple and boring. It could be as simple as, he left Bitcoin when things were already going well enough in the hands of the community and died in an accident weeks, months later. It does not necessarily have to do any thing with CIA killing him, him secretly being a still active member of the community or any other such thing. Why has his family not recovered and sold his Bitcoin yet? It may be as stupid as, he hid it so well nobody even thought it may exist. Imagine I hid my Seed on a stainless plate and buried it under the ground. If nobody else knows about it or about my interest in Bitcoin, my land may go through generations of people before anybody even FINDS that plate.
We do like stories about heroes and villains though so I get where some of the speculation comes from. CIA was inevitably going to infiltrate a system that may demolish or destabilize Fiat or the Banking system, particularly when that system starts showing signs of becoming strong and successful. This was a no brainer. The answers will never be definitive though. All questions related to Satoshi remain with only speculative answers. I suppose the only question with a real definitive answer is whether he was the creator of Bitcoin.