In this email from June 11, 2009, Satoshi praised the improvements Malmi had made to the bitcoin.org website. He also asked for investment-related language to be removed. It was the first time he raised it: his May 4 reply to the first FAQ draft had not mentioned the investment line.
Most notably, Satoshi introduced the term “cryptocurrency” in this exchange:
Satoshi Nakamoto (email to Martti Malmi, June 11, 2009, 9:24:25 PM UTC)Someone came up with the word ‘cryptocurrency’… maybe it’s a word we should use when describing Bitcoin, do you like it?
The following day, Malmi replied that “it sounds good” and proposed “P2P Cryptocurrency” as a marketing tagline for Bitcoin. The word was not Satoshi’s own: he was relaying a term someone else had suggested, asking for Malmi’s opinion on adopting it. Within a year it had stuck to him; InfoWorld told its readers in May 2010 that Satoshi “has dubbed it a cryptocurrency.”
During this period, Malmi had been actively improving the bitcoin.org website infrastructure, having installed Bitweaver to support wikis, forums, and community features. Satoshi registered the username “satoshi” with moderator permissions on the new site.
The corrections kept coming for another year — including two bug reports about the FAQ that Satoshi forwarded himself in July 2010.
