Malmi replied to Satoshi agreeing to take on the website and FAQ development.
In this email, he also proposed a feature idea: a UI tool for creating password-protected private keys with backup capabilities.
He reported that he was already actively running a Bitcoin node 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Later that same day, Satoshi responded by granting Malmi developer access to the Bitcoin SourceForge project. Satoshi endorsed the private key encryption feature as “absolutely essential” for future security — an idea he had already floated, as a future feature, to Dustin Trammell four months earlier. He also provided Malmi with an extensive compilation of Q&A material addressing common inquiries about blockchain mechanics, transaction confirmation times, the 21-million coin limit, and scaling.
Malmi drew on this material for the FAQ draft he submitted the following day.
That agreement opened a working relationship over the FAQ that Satoshi kept revisiting for more than a year, through specific wording corrections and, eventually, bug reports he forwarded himself — see how the page kept getting edited long after the first draft.
