Satoshipedia
The Satoshi Mail encyclopedia: 52 articles about Satoshi Nakamoto, the people he wrote to, and the events of Bitcoin's first years. Every article links to the emails, posts and commits it draws on.
Archives
- Blocktrainer archive Blocktrainer's searchable archive of Satoshi's emails and posts, with German translations.
- The Quotable Satoshi SNI's collection of Satoshi quotes, which supplies the Topics in Satoshi Mail.
- Satoshi Nakamoto Archive (satoshin.name) satoshin.name, a backup of Satoshi's BitcoinTalk posts and mailing-list emails, one page per message.
- Satoshi Nakamoto Institute The organisation whose collection of Satoshi's writings is the core of this archive.
- nakamoto-archive A GitHub archive of Satoshi's writings and primary sources, including private email.
Correspondents
- Adam Back British cryptographer whose Hashcash the white paper cites.
- Dustin Trammell Early user who emailed Satoshi in the first weeks of Bitcoin.
- Gavin Andresen Developer Satoshi handed the project and the alert key to.
- Hal Finney Cypherpunk who ran Bitcoin from its first release and received its first transaction.
- Jon Matonis Early advocate who corresponded with Satoshi in 2010.
- Laszlo Hanyecz Programmer who made the first known commercial bitcoin transaction.
- Martti Malmi Finnish developer who joined Satoshi in 2009 and built the website and forum.
- Mike Hearn Developer who corresponded with Satoshi from 2009 to 2011 and wrote bitcoinj.
- Nicholas Bohm Retired English solicitor who debugged Bitcoin v0.1 with Satoshi by email in 2009.
- Wei Dai Computer engineer whose b-money is the white paper's first reference.
Cypherpunks
- Adam Back British cryptographer whose Hashcash the white paper cites.
- Hal Finney Cypherpunk who ran Bitcoin from its first release and received its first transaction.
- James A. Donald Wrote the first public reply to the white paper.
- Len Sassaman Remailer developer proposed as Satoshi, or part of him.
- Nick Szabo Computer scientist who proposed bit gold and smart contracts.
- Precursors of Bitcoin The digital-cash ideas Bitcoin built on.
- Ray Dillinger Reviewed Satoshi's code in 2008 and later published it.
- Wei Dai Computer engineer whose b-money is the white paper's first reference.
Developers
- Gavin Andresen Developer Satoshi handed the project and the alert key to.
- Jeff Garzik Developer active in Satoshi's forum threads in 2010.
- Laszlo Hanyecz Programmer who made the first known commercial bitcoin transaction.
- Martti Malmi Finnish developer who joined Satoshi in 2009 and built the website and forum.
- Mike Hearn Developer who corresponded with Satoshi from 2009 to 2011 and wrote bitcoinj.
- Peter Todd Bitcoin developer named as Satoshi by a 2024 HBO documentary; he denies it.
Documents
- Bitcoin white paper The paper that described Bitcoin, announced 31 October 2008.
- Pre-release source code The earliest known Bitcoin code, sent to three reviewers in November 2008.
- Precursors of Bitcoin The digital-cash ideas Bitcoin built on.
Economics
- 21 million supply cap The rule that no more than 21 million bitcoins will ever exist.
- Bitcoin Pizza Day The 22 May 2010 purchase of two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins.
- Satoshi (unit) Bitcoin's smallest unit, one hundred-millionth of a bitcoin.
- Satoshi's coins The 750,000 to 1.1 million bitcoins attributed to Satoshi, untouched since 2010.
Events
- Bitcoin Pizza Day The 22 May 2010 purchase of two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins.
- Bitcoin v0.1 The first release of the Bitcoin software, for Windows, in January 2009.
- Bitcoin white paper The paper that described Bitcoin, announced 31 October 2008.
- COPA v Wright The 2024 High Court case that declared Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto.
- Departure of Satoshi Nakamoto How Satoshi withdrew from Bitcoin between December 2010 and April 2011.
- First bitcoin transaction Satoshi's 10-bitcoin payment to Hal Finney in block 170.
- Genesis block The first block of the Bitcoin blockchain, carrying a Times headline.
- Kleiman v. Wright US civil case against Craig Wright; a 2021 jury awarded W&K Info Defense Research $100 million.
- Value overflow incident The August 2010 bug that created over 184 billion bitcoins, fixed within hours.
- WikiLeaks and Bitcoin Satoshi's December 2010 appeal to WikiLeaks not to use Bitcoin.
Forums and lists
- BitcoinTalk The forum Satoshi opened in November 2009, where he wrote most of his public posts.
- Cryptography mailing list The mailing list where Satoshi announced the white paper and v0.1.
- Forum staff board (2009) Deleted test topics from the Bitcoin forum's staff area, written before it opened in November 2009.
- P2P Foundation The forum where Satoshi described Bitcoin for a general audience in February 2009.
- SourceForge Where Bitcoin's code, releases and mailing list lived until 2011.
- bitcoin-list Bitcoin's own announcement list on SourceForge, opened December 2008.
- bitcoin.org The website Satoshi registered in 2008 to host the white paper and software.
Identity
- COPA v Wright The 2024 High Court case that declared Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto.
- Identity of Satoshi Nakamoto Who has been named as Satoshi, by whom, and how they responded.
- Kleiman v. Wright US civil case against Craig Wright; a 2021 jury awarded W&K Info Defense Research $100 million.
- Media investigations Major journalistic attempts to unmask Satoshi, from Newsweek to Finding Satoshi.
- Satoshi's writing style What Satoshi's spelling, punctuation and posting times reveal, measured from the archive.
Identity candidates
- Adam Back British cryptographer whose Hashcash the white paper cites.
- Craig Wright Australian who claimed to be Satoshi until a UK court ruled against him in 2024.
- Hal Finney Cypherpunk who ran Bitcoin from its first release and received its first transaction.
- Len Sassaman Remailer developer proposed as Satoshi, or part of him.
- Nick Szabo Computer scientist who proposed bit gold and smart contracts.
- Peter Todd Bitcoin developer named as Satoshi by a 2024 HBO documentary; he denies it.
People
- Adam Back British cryptographer whose Hashcash the white paper cites.
- Craig Wright Australian who claimed to be Satoshi until a UK court ruled against him in 2024.
- Dustin Trammell Early user who emailed Satoshi in the first weeks of Bitcoin.
- Gavin Andresen Developer Satoshi handed the project and the alert key to.
- Hal Finney Cypherpunk who ran Bitcoin from its first release and received its first transaction.
- James A. Donald Wrote the first public reply to the white paper.
- Jeff Garzik Developer active in Satoshi's forum threads in 2010.
- Jon Matonis Early advocate who corresponded with Satoshi in 2010.
- Laszlo Hanyecz Programmer who made the first known commercial bitcoin transaction.
- Len Sassaman Remailer developer proposed as Satoshi, or part of him.
- Martti Malmi Finnish developer who joined Satoshi in 2009 and built the website and forum.
- Mike Hearn Developer who corresponded with Satoshi from 2009 to 2011 and wrote bitcoinj.
- New Liberty Standard Pseudonymous early user who published a bitcoin exchange rate.
- Nicholas Bohm Retired English solicitor who debugged Bitcoin v0.1 with Satoshi by email in 2009.
- Nick Szabo Computer scientist who proposed bit gold and smart contracts.
- Peter Todd Bitcoin developer named as Satoshi by a 2024 HBO documentary; he denies it.
- Ray Dillinger Reviewed Satoshi's code in 2008 and later published it.
- Satoshi Nakamoto The pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin.
- Wei Dai Computer engineer whose b-money is the white paper's first reference.
Satoshi Nakamoto
- Departure of Satoshi Nakamoto How Satoshi withdrew from Bitcoin between December 2010 and April 2011.
- Identity of Satoshi Nakamoto Who has been named as Satoshi, by whom, and how they responded.
- Monuments to Satoshi Statues of Satoshi in Budapest and Lugano.
- The Quotable Satoshi SNI's collection of Satoshi quotes, which supplies the Topics in Satoshi Mail.
- Satoshi Nakamoto The pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin.
- Satoshi's accounts and keys The email addresses, forum accounts and cryptographic keys Satoshi used.
- Satoshi's coins The 750,000 to 1.1 million bitcoins attributed to Satoshi, untouched since 2010.
- Satoshi's writing style What Satoshi's spelling, punctuation and posting times reveal, measured from the archive.
Software
- Bitcoin Core The software descended from Satoshi's original client.
- Bitcoin v0.1 The first release of the Bitcoin software, for Windows, in January 2009.
- Genesis block The first block of the Bitcoin blockchain, carrying a Times headline.
- Pre-release source code The earliest known Bitcoin code, sent to three reviewers in November 2008.
- SourceForge Where Bitcoin's code, releases and mailing list lived until 2011.
- Value overflow incident The August 2010 bug that created over 184 billion bitcoins, fixed within hours.
- bitcoin.org The website Satoshi registered in 2008 to host the white paper and software.