$ETH $BTC Fifteen years have passed in the blink of an eye. The last patch he sent still quietly lies on the forum—on December 12, 2010, Satoshi Nakamoto quietly went offline after updating to version 0.3.19, and he never returned.
That update seemed ordinary: adding DoS protection and removing the safety mode. Yet it felt like a carefully arranged letting go—he pushed the system towards true autonomy and then turned away, disappearing into time.
Bitcoin has since grown independently. Its price rose from zero to tens of thousands, and its network expanded from niche to global. The code he left behind has been continuously restructured, but that 21M cap and the original intent of peer-to-peer remain etched on the chain.
Disappearance became the perfect design. Without an author, no one can press the stop button. Decentralization has transformed from an idea into reality, stubbornly advancing amidst the roar of mining machines and community disputes.
