Satoshi said following: I'm sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume. This means that he was expecting Bitcoin to reach this level of success but what kind of success this is, it's another question. Transaction volumes are definitely significantly up, especially compared to 2010 year, when he wrote this post.
By the way, two years ago, when Bitcoin ordinals were spamming the network, there were so many transactions in the mempool that the price per the simplest transaction was up to $20, which is insane.

I also want to say that to my mind, Satoshi wouldn't like Bitcoin ETFs and the way Bitcoin's direction shifted from being a solution to modern e-commerce problems to becoming a thing of manipulation.

I believe Satoshi has already predicted that bitcoin will be successful in the future. This could be the reason why he is the largest holder of bitcoin so far that amounted around 1.1 million BTC. However, this is not his focus why he created bitcoin since the original goal for bitcoin is to serve as a virtual currency that can be used as a legal tender, or a payment system that can be used to buy or sell goods or services. But since this isn't yet completely possible due to non-support from government, hence bitcoin as a digital asset becomes popularly known these days that have been taken advantage by big whales or even those big, private institutions that are now hoarding bitcoin.

This will depend on what goals he sets for bitcoin.


If his goal and expectation is that bitcoin can become popular globally but it must be used for its original purpose as a peer to peer currency. No interference from governments, banks and centralized organizations. I don't think he would call it a success.

On the contrary, if his goal is for Bitcoin to be accepted and become globally popular, with huge transaction volume regardless of how it is used. He feels what bitcoin has achieved today is an unexpected success.

But in the end, we still cannot know what he truly wants to see in Bitcoin and what he wants it to become.

This question is very personal, so it is very difficult to know exactly what was on Satoshi mind. His decision to remain anonymous has prevented further information about his vision for Bitcoin from being fully disclosed, even though the project he is building is now rapidly developing. To get an opinion or find clues about his feelings after Bitcoin reached the level of success it has today, we can look at the whitepaper that explains it in detail and his communication with the community at the beginning of Bitcoin launch.

While there is no guarantee he never expected Bitcoin to achieve such massive success and high value, his email conversations regarding Bitcoin "as a completely decentralized peer-to-peer electronic currency system with no third parties" and his continued involvement in the early development of Bitcoin, ensuring its underlying code was robust and secure, suggest Satoshi was very serious about Bitcoin and expected it to have a bright future with wider adoption. He has left absolutely no definitive explanation since he disappeared around 2010, but the breakthrough he made has opened the eyes of most elements of society from different financial levels in looking at money and blockchain technology.

no one knew the intention that Satoshi had towards bitcoin and no matter what it might be look at the level of attention bitcoin now have, and it might have started from an idea and from there the implementation and other things follow and the innovation got a massive response, globally now no one does not know about bitcoin and people are even considering it as a retirement plan and others so with this kind of things shows the level of trust that people have in bitcoin and the way volunteer awareness were happening was just amazing at some point if you are not investing in bitcoin you are making big mistake.

Just that, whether Satoshi expected it or not the name Bitcoin will exist forever because even countries want to invest, seeing the profit El Salvador made, some want to use it as there reserve instead of gold. This is because gold has been used long enough.

For a technology that was able to eliminate the use of a central authority, of course Satoshi must have had high expectations from it.

He already knew how the government would respond once they see what bitcoin was becoming, so he took the earliest exit and stayed hidden.

Bitcoin has so many potential that may be yet unlocked. Satoshi would be very proud of his genius idea now, and we all are grateful for giving us this wonderful technology.

Wish I had spare merit!

Even Satoshi would not believe what bitcoin has turned into, or maybe we might be thinking different from him but from what I have always perceived bitcoin has changed directions, seems not to be against but for or a tool for the same people we wanted freedom from, yet in terms of price it has performed really well but do we loss ourselves (core tents/intentions of bitcoin or satoshi) to the price of bitcoin? not sure anyone will like to do that.

I don’t know how best to say it but yes I believe bitcoin already exceeded the expectations of satoshi and whoever satoshi is, he will be very proud of himself now and Howfar the project and coin have grown so are into a global recognized asset and since the primary goal of satoshi was to have something against what the local banks offered, it is already a thing of surprise seeing even banks considering ironing some bitcoin which some government are already buying into.

I don't see it that way. Satoshi is wise and brilliant, and he will never take the most of his time developing bitcoin without future expectations from it. This is common sense that even an ordinary developer will always root success from his invention, much more for Satoshi because his invention is never an ordinary but a life-changing creation.

Bitcoin has become successful because it was designed by Satoshi in the most successful and productive way. And no one can question it but let bitcoin's success deal on it.