Do ever wonder what Satoshi is feeling?
Do you ever stop your day to think about what Satoshi must be thinking of the current crypto landscape, the level of adoption and the advancements which have come to the ecosystem since he or she left? Seeing our memes and the scandals as well as the government responses; seeing his or her creation left behind to tackle the many problems of our ailing world.
Even more so can you imagine sitting on Billions of Dollars and being famous for your invention of blockchain technology and yet never telling anyone that you did all that.
As someone who has my own token project I often think about that, the fact that Satoshi must be somewhere watching all of this unfold, day by day. Seeing new tokens and coins pop up, the FUD spread by the media; Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash going up and down in the markets.
It must be nerve wrecking, there must be days when he or she feels like they can't hold it in anymore.
"I said peer to peer cash, not another tool of global bankers!" I can almost hear him or her screaming at the TV seeing BTC in the news again.
Thinking "Why didn't you take your money off that service, I said, to keep your key yourself" when he or she overhears a conversation in a store comes on about a centralized company going bankrupt.
"Come on, that's a total 💩coin. I gave the fundamentals of a good coin over a decade ago so you'd know what to look for..." Under a grumbled breath when scrolling through Twitter.
"Inflation is so out of control...." while reading an online news report, "my Bitcoin can help with that...as long as they keep up with focusing on adoption and innovation."
While I'm not sure if that's exactly what Satoshi would say or think while observing all of this from a distance, the sentiments are likely similar. He or she probably made a commitment a long time ago to never reveal themselves, to let Bitcoin get developed further and owned by the whole community, so it could become true peer to peer cash for the world.
Satoshi likely wanted each of us to be Satoshi. Wanted all of us to take what he or she started, to become advocates for decentralization, blockchain technology and peer to peer cash. Together Satoshi knew we could bring about a massive financial change, to bring about the very thing that can help humanity out of this mess we're finding ourselves in right now.
I know Satoshi, where-ever you are, you described decentralized peer to peer cash when you wrote the White Paper. You're hoping all of us do the right things. You'd never reveal yourself, past that "hello world" moment when you gifted Bitcoin to the world. I know, you're watching everything that's going on. I know these things people are doing are driving you crazy, they put words in your mouth when you so clearly told all of us what you were thinking and wanting out of Bitcoin.
When I see Bitcoin Cash I know you see what I see in it. The continuation of your vision, the bringing of real peer to peer global sound money.
I know you often want to speak up and set the record straight among the Maximalists, or to pull your millions out to help further adoption or do charity projects involving blockchain.
But as you're seeing the world crumble around us you know the only thing you can do is to sit back and let Bitcoin be Bitcoin; to let us advocate for Bitcoin Cash to become the global currency you've wrote about and envisioned. You know if you stand up and declare yourself Satoshi we'd never take the courageous steps needed for each of us to become Satoshi.
I for one want to thank you for that as I know by you walking away and then remaining in the shadows was the hardest thing you've ever done. I could never walk away from Konra and Narath, so I know how hard that must have been for you. But I also know you walking away was the only way for our world to ever be freed from the clutches of the Elites and the Bankers.
Thank you as you've not only been a huge inspiration for me, but also the inspiration for millions of others...and you give hope to Billions that all of us will have financial freedom in a peer to peer system where we all are Satoshi and in control of our own money!
hahah, interesting and funny. I sometimes think about satoshi too but not a convo like this. It was a good read.