Oddbean new post about login | logout And at which point do you decide to conceal this identity? I assume Satoshi was considering Bitcoin and discussing it with a close circle before the White Paper. Then they have to decide to stop or continue talking about it to avoid drawing suspicion. Or never talk about it in the first place. Pretty wild
You have a point, figuring out how to make that dividing line might be the hardest part. I think you see it in the Ross Ullbricht case, where he exposed an email address very early on, when he was asking a coding question, trying to build the website.
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