Satoshi on Bitcoin
A collection of Satoshi Nakamoto's writings
Publisher Description
A collection of Satoshi Nakamoto’s writings on Bitcoin.
This collection contains Satoshi’s words, compiled and neatly formatted without commentary. Each chapter contains Satoshi’s writings from a specific medium (emails, forum posts, website, and source code), with detailed date/time timestamps for each entry. These writings tell a compelling story of the excitement and challenges surrounding Bitcoin’s creation in 2009-2010.
The detailed collection includes:
- Satoshi’s initial emails in the Cryptography Mailing List
- The launch of Bitcoin as documented in the Bitcoin Mailing List
- The founder’s thoughts and discussions in the BitcoinTalk forum
- Messages in the P2P Foundation
- Early bitcoin.org web archives, linking to Wei Dai and Nick Szabo
- Debates on privacy, anonymity, freedom, and government control
- Initial bitcoin icons and logos
- Original bitcoin source code
- Thoughtful responses to Hal Finney and other early members
- The Bitcoin white paper
- Insights on Bitcoin’s scalability, escrow, and future development
- URL links to the original content
This book is published into the public domain, and links to the original source content are provided for each entry.