Satoshi Nakamoto
2011-04-23 · via email (published by Mike Hearn) ↗ primary
Last known message, to Mike Hearn
“I've moved on to other things. It's in good hands with Gavin and everyone.”
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Creator of Bitcoin (pseudonym), active 2008–2011
Wrote the Bitcoin whitepaper (31 Oct 2008), mined the genesis block and released Bitcoin v0.1 (8 Jan 2009). Handed the project to other developers in December 2010 and stopped writing in April 2011.
Pseudonymous
Joined: 2008-08-20 · First known message: email to Adam Back, 20 Aug 2008 · bitcoindefense.org ↗ primary
Pseudonymous. Identity unknown; we do not speculate. Last known message: 23 April 2011.
bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf ↗primarySatoshi Nakamoto Institute ↗primary
Museum format: every post is a real, sourced quote. Quotes stay in the original English; the Russian line is our translation.Source badges on this profile: primary 18 · secondary 2 · unconfirmed 0
Satoshi Nakamoto
2010-12-12 · via BitcoinTalk ↗ primary
Last public forum post
“There's more work to do on DoS, but I'm doing a quick build of what I have so far in case it's needed…”
Satoshi Nakamoto
2010-07-20 · via BitcoinTalk ↗ primary
“Bitcoin is an implementation of Wei Dai's b-money proposal http://weidai.com/bmoney.txt on Cypherpunks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunks in 1998 and Nick Szabo's Bitgold proposal http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html”
Satoshi Nakamoto
2009-02-11 · via P2P Foundation ↗ primary
“The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work.”
Satoshi Nakamoto · life event
2009-01-12 primary
📌 Sent 10 BTC to Hal Finney in block 170
Satoshi Nakamoto
2009-01-08 · via Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd) ↗ primary
“Announcing the first release of Bitcoin, a new electronic cash system…”
Satoshi Nakamoto · life event
2009-01-03 primary
📌 Mined the genesis block (block 0)
Satoshi Nakamoto
2008-10-31 · via Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd) ↗ primary
“I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.”
Satoshi Nakamoto
2008-08-22 · via email (published by Wei Dai) ↗ secondary
To Wei Dai
“I was very interested to read your b-money page. I'm getting ready to release a paper that expands on your ideas into a complete working system.”
Satoshi Nakamoto
2008-08-20 · via email (published in the COPA v Wright trial) ↗ primary
To Adam Back
“I'm getting ready to release a paper that references your Hashcash paper and I wanted to make sure I have the citation right.”