Satoshi Nakamoto archive
Every public writing by Satoshi Nakamoto that we could pin to an original source, from the first Hashcash email in August 2008 to the last messages of April 2011. Mailing lists, BitcoinTalk, the P2P Foundation, the whitepaper, and the private emails the recipients later published. Sorted by date and topic, and searchable, so you do not have to hunt through five websites to find what was said.
773 writings · 20 August 2008 to 23 April 2011
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About this archive
Each page cites the original venue and links to it. The Satoshi Nakamoto Institute was used as an index and a cross-check for the public lists and forum posts; their footnotes and editorial quotes are not copied here.
Private emails appear only where the recipient, or a court exhibit they submitted, has already published them. A few messages still contain credentials or a street address in those originals; those details are omitted here.
One 2014 P2P Foundation line, "I am not Dorian Nakamoto," is kept and labelled as disputed. Claimed Satoshi writings associated with Craig Wright are not included. Code comments and early commit messages are planned for a later pass.
This collection is also a reference for Bitcoin: Year One, the comic about the period when Satoshi was still the steward of the project.
Sources and licence notes are kept with the dataset in the site repository, in src/data/satoshi/SOURCES.md.
