70. Last Private Correspondence

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Last PrivateCorrespondence

ALLEGEDLY, Gavin Andresen is the last person to have had a private exchange with Satoshi Nakamoto. It took place four bit- months after his final, December 2010 forum post on cointalk.org. Gavin Andresen had a few private email exchanges with Satoshi after his retreat from public life. However, Gavin has decided that only the very last email from Satoshi will be shared publicly.

Email from Satoshi

Gavin Andresen, April 26, 2011

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011, Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx com>wrote:

I wish you wouldn’t keep talking about me as a mysterious shadowy figure, the press just turns that into a pirate currency angle. Maybe instead make it about the open source project and give more credit to your dev contributors; it helps motivate them.

You must’ve read the Forbes article . . . yeah, I’m not happy with the ‘wacky pirate money’ tone, either.

More credit for the rest of the contributors is a very good idea.

On a completely different subject: I did something that I hope turns out to be smart, but might be stupid.

I was contacted by http://www.iqt.org/they’re a US-govtfunded ‘strategic investment’ company, and part of what they do is holding an annual conference on emerging technologies for US intelligence agencies. This year the theme is “Mobility of Money”.

They asked if I’d be willing to talk about Bitcoin, and I committed to giving a 50-minute presentation and participating in a panel discussion.

I hope that by talking directly to “them” and, more importantly, listening to their questions/concerns, they will think of Bitcoin the way I do-as a just-plain-better, more efficient,less-subject-to-political-whims money. Not as an all-powerful black-market tool that will be used by anarchists to overthrow The System.

It might be really stupid if it just raises Bitcoin’s visibility on their radar, but I think it is way too late for that; Bitcoin is already on their radar.

I plan on posting about this on the forums soon, because“Gavin secretly visits the CIA” would spin all sorts of conspiracy theories. “Gavin openly visits the CIA” will create enough conspiracy theories as it is.