Evidence?
For all practical purposes, he is dead.
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Retraction of indefensible assertion duly noted.
Apparently, you have made an executive decision that my actual response was not important, and you would rather just summarize my response as a supposed "retraction."... yeah.. right.
So "dead" and "For all practical purposes, he is dead." are synonyms to you?
I already explained the context, so you want to get caught up in meaningless semantics, for what purpose? You want to assert that Satoshi is either alive or has some kind of meaningful contribution that can be made, in current times?
In other words, it does not fucking matter if he is alive or not.. whether he is physically alive in flesh and blood or that he is "alive" for any kind of hope of contribution to the bitcoin ecospace.
Bitcoin is currently a dynamic of contributors, and satoshi is not one of them (at least not under his "satoshi" identity), except for looking at historical context and maybe some attempts by some folks to give greater weight to some of his words that actually matter in terms of the current living dynamics of bitcoin itself.. which includes recent activation of segwit.. That is great, right?