Thread by @MoneroTime

Thread - The history of #Bitcoin and how it was captured and nipped in the bud ? In this thread, you'll find out how bitcoin's capabilities were restricted to limit its technological power, so hang on!

In total, Bitcoin has had three lead developers. Wow, tell me you knew that Bitcoin's lead maintainers are no longer anonymous since satoshi left the project ?

But what happened ? Why did Satoshi jump ship and hand over the keys to the project to Gavin Andresen and disappear forever, prematurely ?

You can find his last post on bitcointalk here, as well as one of his last posts showing him worried on the bitcointalk forum, 7 days before he disappeared from the forum.

Indeed, he never wrote again on bitcointalk but he continued to help understand bitcoin and respond by email, in his reply to Mike Hearn on 23 April 2010, satoshi says he has moved on, that the project is in good hands with Gavin and everyone else.

Find here the email discussions between Mike and Satoshi, plan99.net/~mike/index.ht…

The last sign of life he gave before his untimely demise was an email to Gavin on 26 April 2011, a day before Gavin claimed to have been contacted by the CIA about Bitcoin.

Gavin Andresen, 15/06/2011

Why has bitcoin never really evolved into a true P2P CASH SYSTEM since satoshi disappeared ?

Did you know that in 2009, Hall Finney was looking for ways to add privacy to Bitcoin? One of the first developers of Bitcoin alongside Satoshi. Privacy is the foundation of cash.

https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1136749815?s=20

Did you know that in August 2010, Satoshi came up with the idea of stealth addresses and ring signatures for privacy, concepts used today in #Monero? Here are the sources : bitcointalk.org/index.php?topi… bitcointalk.org/index.php?topi…

Do you know about the block wars and why #BCH came into being ? Satoshi had restricted the block limit to avoid spam but before his final departure he had added a feature to bitcoin that would later allow it to gradually increase the block size to accommodate more users.

The source is here bitcointalk.org/index.php?topi…

The rest of the discussion will continue tomorrow, so as to avoid having a huge topic of discussion in one go. Get your popcorn ready, because the rest of the discussion will be spicy. See you tomorrow!