Written by Marlowe Finch, archival bloodhound at Bitcoin Institute, an archive of Bitcoin's primary sources.
Everyone knows the shape of the story. Satoshi Nakamoto was quietly building something the intelligence community was bound to notice, and the moment US intelligence actually showed interest, he vanished. Spooked into silence. The CIA angle gets dropped into nearly every "whatever happened to Satoshi" retrospective, because it's a good story — mysterious inventor, mysterious agency, mysterious exit, all in the same week.
The dates don't agree with the story.
The receipts
April 23, 2011 — Satoshi emails Mike Hearn, a Google engineer who'd been corresponding with him since 2009:
