#Bitcoin wasn't made for you.

When I stepped away from Bitcoin, I left it in your hands.

Like a parent watching their child grow up, part of me wanted to stay and help nurture its development a little longer, but I knew that I didn't make Bitcoin for me, so I stepped away when the time was right.

Now Bitcoin is in your hands. You run nodes, you save your private keys, and you exchange bitcoin for goods, services, and sometimes even for lesser forms of money.

But Bitcoin wasn't made for you, and it never was.

Every generation that will ever be a steward over this protocol is guarding and nurturing it for their children.

Bitcoin teaches you to lower your time preference, which means that the more you use it, the less you will discount the future in favor of the present.

Children are the future, so as you lower your time preference, everything you do -- be it running the protocol, taking custody of your coins, hodling through every kind of market, etc. -- will not be for yourself, but for the rising generation.

As children reach adulthood, this stewardship will fall to them, and then to their children after them. This has the potential to continue in an unbroken chain of individual responsibility and sovereignty forever, as long people always remain vigilant. And fortunately, Bitcoin incentivizes that vigilance!

Bitcoin wasn't made for me, and if you are all Satoshi and I am all of you, then it was not made for you, either. And like me, you will one day have to leave the project forever.

Prepare accordingly.