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Perry E. Metzger

Also appears as Perry Metzger, pmetzger, Perry E Metzger

Perry E. Metzger ran the Cryptography mailing list hosted at metzdowd. com, the moderated venue where Satoshi announced the Bitcoin whitepaper on 31 October 2008. There is no published private email exchange between them in this archive. Metzger's role is the venue itself: he kept a technical list where cypherpunks and cryptographers could argue about designs without drowning in spam, after the older Cypherpunks list had splintered and declined.

In later years he remained an open-source and civil-liberties voice, writing and speaking about cryptography policy, free software and the culture that produced systems like PGP and anonymous remailers. On Bitcoin Takeover he talked about 2008, why the cryptography list split from Cypherpunks, and how little anyone expected Bitcoin to work when the PDF first arrived. That episode is one of the clearest spoken accounts of the room Satoshi walked into.

Venue-keepers rarely become protocol celebrities, yet without that list the whitepaper might have landed in a quieter room. If you want to understand the announcement itself, start with Perry's list archives and then read the whitepaper thread that still sits in this archive. The podcast episode is linked from his person page and from the timeline, cued to the chapter about Satoshi posting to the mailing list.

Did Satoshi Nakamoto talk to Perry E. Metzger?

Satoshi posted to a venue Perry E. Metzger was associated with (18 items in this archive), but this archive has no email from Satoshi to them and no message that names them.

No published emails · no quoted or named replies · 31 October 2008 to 25 January 2009

Sources

Perry E. Metzger on Bitcoin Takeover

Playing Perry E. Metzger's talk about Satoshi in 30s

Cued from chapter: Satoshi posts to the mailing list (25:20).

In this archive (18)

Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
31 October 2008, 18:10 UTC
Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
3 November 2008, 01:37 UTC
Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
3 November 2008, 16:23 UTC
Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
6 November 2008, 20:15 UTC
Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
8 November 2008, 18:54 UTC
Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
9 November 2008, 01:58 UTC
Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
9 November 2008, 03:09 UTC
Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
9 November 2008, 16:31 UTC
Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
10 November 2008, 02:14 UTC
Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
10 November 2008, 22:18 UTC
Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
13 November 2008, 22:56 UTC
Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
14 November 2008, 18:55 UTC
Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
15 November 2008, 04:43 UTC
Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
15 November 2008, 18:02 UTC
Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
17 November 2008, 17:24 UTC
Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin v0.1 released
8 January 2009, 19:27 UTC
Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin v0.1 released
16 January 2009, 16:03 UTC
Posted in their venue · Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin v0.1 released
25 January 2009, 15:47 UTC

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