Before #Bitcoin, I saw a broken people doing their best to survive on broken money.

There was so much unnecessary pain and uncertainty, but there was also plenty of beauty and potential.

I set out to resolve the suffering and enhance the sovereignty of each individual who desired it. I knew that not everyone would, but the #few who do make all my efforts worthwhile.

I connected ingenious technologies of the titans who came before me: David Chaum's Blind Signatures, Adam Back's Hashcash, Hal Finney's Reusable Proof of Work, and many others.

I wove them into a grand tapestry, sprinkling in a few of my own ideas, like the Difficulty Adjustment, and presented it to the then-unsung heroes, the Cypherpunks.

Not long after that, my work was complete: order began to form where only chaos had reigned, and hope started to grow where there had only been despair.

I didn't want to leave, but I knew it was necessary, and events were beginning to unfold that could have compromised my privacy and the future of this gift I had prepared for mankind. So I knew that I had to disappear.

Bitcoin has changed some over the years, but my opinions on those changes are irrelevant; they were changes made by 𝘺𝘰𝘶, because it's 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 monetary network, and that's the whole point.

The protocol is yours now, not mine. I require no thanks for organizing its parts into a cohesive whole, and only hope for your sakes that you use it well.