Yes. Did he just tootle off to Galt’s Gulch or what?  How do you disentangle from the tentacles of the state so effectively?  Was he/they such a visionary as to foresee the surveillance state so far in advance that he went rogue long before the necessity became imminent?  We have been thinking of how to practically implement a doomsday plan. So many deets to consider. 

 All of the cypherpunks were aware of the oncoming surveillance state and worked to prevent it. Satoshi was likely lurking in that mailing list. And there were other groups before this, the history is really interesting. @Aaron van Wirdum did a great job describing all of the things leading to the creation of bitcoin in The Genesis Book 

 Finna to read it…