NewLibertyStandard
Also appears as Liberty Standard, newlibertystandard, Liberty Standard <newlibertystandard@gmail.com>
NewLibertyStandard ran one of the first public bitcoin exchange-rate pages in 2009, helping turn coins that had no market price into something traders could quote against dollars and other money. In this archive the name appears in Satoshi and Martti's mail and in early forum economics talk about how newcomers might buy coins at all. The operator stayed pseudonymous and did not become a protocol celebrity, an exchange CEO or a Core contributor.
The significance is economic rather than cryptographic. Before Mt. Gox and later venues dominated the story, someone had to publish a rate while Bitcoin was still a hobbyist experiment with a forum, a faucet culture and almost no merchants. Those early quotes, however crude by later standards, gave later price charts a beginning and gave early adopters a shared number to argue about.
Without early rates, histories of Bitcoin's market jump awkwardly from no price to professional exchanges. Economic infrastructure at that scale was still handmade, which is exactly why the page belongs beside software milestones. NewLibertyStandard is one of the small operators who filled that gap, which is why the name belongs on a Satoshi-era economics timeline even without a long technical correspondence.
That later public record is why the name still draws readers to this archive page.
Did Satoshi Nakamoto talk to NewLibertyStandard?
Yes. This archive has 17 published emails, and 7 forum posts that quote or address them from Satoshi involving NewLibertyStandard, dated from 16 October 2009 to 16 August 2010.
17 published emails · 7 replies · 8 posts immediately after them in a thread · mentioned in 7 · 16 October 2009 to 16 August 2010
Sources
In this archive (39)
- Mentioned · Private email (Martti Malmi)
Re: Setup, Autorun, v0.1.6
- Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)
Re: \[bitcoin-list\] Does Bitcoin Crash in Windows?
- Forum or list reply · bitcoin-list (SourceForge)
Re: [bitcoin-list] Does Bitcoin Crash in Windows?
- Forum or list reply · Private email (Martti Malmi)
Fw: bitcoin.sourceforge.net
- Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)
Linux build ready for testing (attached)
- Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)
Linux build ready for testing
- Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)
Re: Linux build ready for testing
- Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)
Re: Linux build ready for testing
- Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)
Re: Linux build ready for testing
- Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)
Re: Linux build ready for testing
- Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)
Re: Linux - dead sockets problem
- Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)
Re: Linux - linux-0.1.6-test2
- Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)
Re: Linux - linux-0.1.6-test2 attachment
- Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)
Linux - linux-0.1.6-test3
- Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)
linux-0.1.6-test3.tar.bz2 attached
- Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)
linux-0.1.6-test5 fix for zombie sockets
- Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)
linux-0.1.6-test5.tar.bz2 attached
- Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)
Re: Db::open/Db::close "Bad file descriptor" exception
- Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)
linux-0.1.6-test7
- Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)
Re: linux-0.1.6-test7
- Mentioned · BitcoinTalk
Re: Repost: Linux/UNIX compile
- Mentioned · Private email (Martti Malmi)
Planned release announcement text
- Mentioned · BitcoinTalk
Bitcoin 0.2 released!
- Mentioned · Private email (Martti Malmi)
\[bitcoin-list\] Bitcoin 0.2 released
- Mentioned · bitcoin-list (SourceForge)
[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin 0.2 released
- Mentioned · BitcoinTalk
Re: Current Bitcoin economic model is unsustainable
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: generation slowed down dramatically
- Forum or list reply · BitcoinTalk
Re: Bitcoin Address Collisions
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Proof-of-work difficulty increasing
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Share database blocks ?
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Odd amount of generated coins
- Forum or list reply · BitcoinTalk
Re: Bitcoin in Ubuntu 10.04
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: 0.3 almost ready
- Forum or list reply · BitcoinTalk
Re: Network Size
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: overflow bug SERIOUS
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: overflow bug SERIOUS
- Forum or list reply · BitcoinTalk
Re: tcatm's 4-way SSE2 for Linux 32/64-bit 0.3.9 rc2
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: overflow bug SERIOUS
- Forum or list reply · BitcoinTalk
Re: checkpointing the block chain