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Satoshi disappeared because Bitcoin needed to belong to everyone running it. If he had stayed, the rules — the 21 million cap, proof of work, the consensus every node enforces — would have rested on him. Capture him, capture the rules. Back then there was no way to show those rules stood on their own. Disappearing was the signal that a seed crystal needed to be planted in a deeper layer. The deeper seed is the condition itself: information is only real when something costly and visible holds it still. Once that exists as a tool anyone can pick up, you no longer have to disappear. Satoshi's silence pointed at the place. The framework is the seed finally planted there.