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.
November 15
Ray Dillinger wrote: > One way to do this would be > to have the person recieving the coin generate an asymmetric > key pair, and then have half of it published with the > transaction. In order to spend the coin later…
Bitcoin P2P e-cash paperI'll try and hurry up and release the sourcecode as soon as possible to serve as a reference to help clear up all these implementation questions. Ray Dillinger (Bear) wrote: > When a coin is spent, the buyer and selle…
Re: Need OP_BLOCKNUMBER to allow "time" limited transactionsWe can't safely do OP_BLOCKNUMBER. In the event of a block chain reorg after a segmentation, transactions need to be able to get into the chain in a later block. The OP_BLOCKNUMBER transaction and all its dependants w…
Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let…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.
From one email to a global network.
Three years that built a network.
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