FWIW we don’t know if Satoshi remained anonymous. We just know that he wasn’t conclusively identified by relatively unsophisticated internet commenters and journalists.
OTOH there were many times when Satoshi connected to IRC with non-Tor residential IPs, it’s possible that deanonymization was just one subpoena away.
Yep, it's survivor bias to assume Satoshi's methods were effective, because he could be incarcerated or kidnapped or traced with his methods and it would not be general knowledge.
No, that either they didn’t identify him as a threat, or that he was a fed all along (in which case, fair enough, the feds also invented Tor, they do cool shit occasionally).
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