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The conversation begins with an acknowledgment of the decade since Satoshi’s disappearance. The researcher, now a writer for Bitcoin Magazine, explains his efforts to chronicle and understand the early days of Bitcoin, emphasizing that his work aims not to identify or speculate about Satoshi’s real identity but to understand the trajectory of Bitcoin’s governance, community, and technological evolution.
He highlights the importance of mapping out the initial phases of Bitcoin’s development, emphasizing that the core idea was a decentralization experiment—a project born from the efforts of a community that outgrew its creator.