You could argue that satoshi could never actually control Bitcoin even if they wanted to—that's kind of the whole point. Bitcoin's design philosophy was built on the idea of removing any single point of control, whether that's a CEO, a foundation, or even Bitcoin's creator.

No CEO. No central authority. That's not a bug in Bitcoin—it's the entire feature that makes it work. The network belongs to everyone who runs a node, holds sats, or participates in mining. Once the code was released, Satoshi stepped back, and the protocol evolved on its own terms through community consensus.

That's what separates Bitcoin from literally every other organization or currency system. There's no one person you can point to and say "that's who controls this." The decentralization isn't accidental—it's foundational. 🔗