THE PERMANENT BITCOIN ARCHIVE
Bitcoin, in Satoshi’s own words.
Every forum post, email and quote Satoshi Nakamoto left behind, from the first whitepaper email in 2008 to the last message in 2011. Each record links to its original source.
October 23
Liberty Standard wrote: > Do you Windows users experience occasional Bitcoin crashes? > Lately Bitcoin running in wine-1.0.1 has been crashing frequently. I was > just wondering whether this is a Wine issue or a Bitco…
Re: Suggestion: Allow short messages to be sent together with bitcoins ?ECDSA can't encrypt messages, only sign signatures. It would be unwise to have permanently recorded plaintext messages for everyone to see. It would be an accident waiting to happen. If there's going to be a message s…
Re: Win7 64bit since last patch Tues now crashesQuote from: Odin on October 22, 2010, 09:24:38 PM Fault Module Name: mingwm10.dll This is the important clue. I believe it's saying it crashed in that. Maybe there are other versions of it to try. mingwm10.dll is just…
A generation ago, multi-user time-sharing computer systems had a similar problem. Before strong encryption, users had to rely on password protection to secure their files, placing trust in the system administrator to…Read the full quotes ↗
Three records that tell the story.
- 01Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
Satoshi announces the whitepaper to a cryptography mailing list.
- 02Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency
Bitcoin is introduced to the world on the P2P Foundation forum.
- 03Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency
Satoshi’s final public word on the forum before stepping away.
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