21 BTCMartti Malmi
Martti Malmi: Bitcoin's second developer (“sirius”); set up the forum that became BitcoinTalk. A computer-science student in Finland who emailed Satoshi in 2009, wrote the website and FAQ, worked on the Linux port and set up the forums. He published his emails with Satoshi for the 2024 COPA trial.
Background
- Helsinki University of Technology, computer science (2009)
- Bitcoin website, FAQ, forums and Linux port (2009–2010); kept the bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.org domain records until about 2013
Connections
- Satoshi Nakamoto: Worked with Satoshi by email, 2009–2011
In their own words
“I'm Trickstern from the anti-state.com forum, and I would like to help with Bitcoin, if there's something I can do.” (2009-05, via email (published by Martti Malmi))
“All right, I can do the website and the FAQ.” (3 May 2009, via email (published by Martti Malmi))
From the Bitcoin Museum
Bitcoin's second developer (2 May 2009): Satoshi answers Martti Malmi (“sirius”), a Finnish student who offered to help. Malmi builds the website and FAQ, works on the Linux port and later in 2009 sets up the forums.
See also
References
- X · @marttimalmi x.com
- Satoshi–Sirius emails mmalmi.github.io
- bitcoindefense.org bitcoindefense.org