22 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 25 Jun
Bitcoin became popular in 2011 for 2 reasons:
Silk Road
WikiLeaks
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22 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 25 Jun
He was a pioneer in living fiat free.
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22 sats \ 6 replies \ @riberet19 25 Jun
He was forced to use Bitcoin when all means to finance himself were denied, for example, PayPal, he used Bitcoin as an emergency network.
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16 sats \ 5 replies \ @cristaiji OP 25 Jun
To be honest I didn’t know much about his history around Bitcoin or that he was into hacking and cryptography. Clever fella. 🤯
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122 sats \ 4 replies \ @riberet19 25 Jun
Basically, they didn't let him finance himself with any method so he couldn't continue doing his journalism work with Wikileaks, when he found himself against the wall he started using Bitcoin, which made Satoshi Nakamoto disappear.
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38 sats \ 3 replies \ @0fje0 25 Jun
I'm not sure we know that this specifically made Satoshi disappear? As I recall, he did expressed his concerns about Wikileaks accepting Bitcoin and shortly thereafter "moved on to other things", but if he ever sited Wikileaks as the reason for leaving, then I'd like to read that. Do you have a source, maybe?
Another speculation at the time for him disappearing, was Gavin's visit to some government agency. That also sounded plausible...
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122 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 25 Jun
This article talks about it:
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2014/09/16/assange-bitcoin-and-wikileaks-helped-keep-each-other-alive/
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76 sats \ 0 replies \ @0fje0 26 Jun
Thanks, I haven't seen this before.
It certainly strongly suggests that Wikileaks accepting Bitcoin may have caused Satoshi to leave earlier than he otherwise might have.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @riberet19 25 Jun
There are the messages he said after Wikileaks accepted Bitcoin and his cessation of communication next, perhaps I expressed myself badly saying that this was what made him disappear, but he disappeared after this event, that's what I should have said so as not to confuse.
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