Cryptography mailing list

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The Cryptography mailing list, hosted at metzdowd.com, is the list Satoshi used to announce the white paper on 31 October 2008 and v0.1 on 8 January 2009.

The white-paper thread is the first public discussion of Bitcoin. Members including James A. Donald, Ray Dillinger and Hal Finney debated its scalability, its incentives and its defence against attack, and Satoshi answered at length (the thread). It is under the Cryptography label in Satoshi Mail (open the label).

See also

• Bitcoin white paper
• bitcoin-list
• P2P Foundation

Primary sources

The messages and commits this article draws on, in Satoshi Mail and where they were first published.

1. Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper, Cryptography mailing list, 31 October 2008. Original source

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