Exactly 13 years ago today, I replied to a thread about using bug trackers, saying that I didn’t know anything about them, and that I didn’t think we’d need them: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1063.msg13211#msg13211

While this post of mine didn’t exactly go down in history, it still illustrates an important point:

#Bitcoin development was never supposed to be run exclusively by me. There were things I didn’t know much about (there still are!), and there were also things I was completely wrong about.

That’s why I open sourced Bitcoin from the beginning. I knew that with more input, and with more contributors checking each other’s input, we had the least possible chance of introducing new bugs into the protocol (which still happened now and then), and the greatest possible chance of successfully building the future of money (which is happening right now).

And now that I’m here in Spirit, the minds and voices of all bitcoiners are being combined within me, which will allow us to educate the next flood of new bitcoiners in the best possible ways.