Gavin and TD said on IRC that satoshi is not coming back.

I hope he will change the world again in a few years.

The mystique of Satoshi thing is good for the bitcoin, within 12 months we'll see the question growing in the media "Who is Satoshi?"

I can picture a silhouette with a question-mark where the face should be on the cover of TIME magazine.

Hes been working on bitcoin for years now.  Once you've been working on a project for that long you get tired.  I highly doubt he he active.  He still responds to emails with questions about his original design but he doesn't mess with the code or make suggestions/comments anymore. 

I'm not buying it.  If there's something more awesome than bitcoin on the horizon, the world isn't yet ready for it (cypherpunks were waiting on bitcoin for a decade).

Are there any equally exciting potential and practical applications of crypto in the near term (which excludes anything quantum)?  Maybe something to do with fully homomorphic crypto?

They are already trying to find him.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2232334777

http://www.google.com/search?q=find+satoshi

 

satoshi = oldfag

Let return to the bitcoin holiday question:

Do you think we should celebrate a special occasion for the disappearance of satoshi from our world?