This entry is a chronological master index of every documented Satoshi Nakamoto event in the Archive, rendered as an interactive D3 timeline.
What is included: every Archive entry attributed to Satoshi as the author — private correspondence, mailing-list posts (cryptography, bitcoin-list, p2p-research), BitcoinTalk and P2P Foundation forum posts, and SourceForge releases. The timeline does not include third-party writing about Satoshi.
How to read the chart: each dot is one event. The horizontal axis is time (August 2008 to early 2014). The vertical lanes are communication channels. Hover any dot to see the title and date; click to open the source entry. The dot density per lane shows where Satoshi spent attention at each moment; the gaps show silences.
What the shape reveals at a glance:
- The pre-launch ramp on the cryptography mailing list and Bitcoin-list (October 2008 – January 2009).
- The explosion of BitcoinTalk activity from late 2009 through 2010 — the densest stretch of Satoshi’s documented life.
- The 75-day SourceForge SVN gap in March–May 2010 (separately analyzed in the source-code analysis).
- The rapid tail-off in early 2011, ending with the April 2011 farewells to Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen.
- The single disputed 2014 P2P Foundation post (the Dorian rebuttal), which sits alone three years after everything else. Michel Bauwens later recalled in a 2025 interview that Satoshi also wrote to him directly around that time to deny being the man identified by Newsweek — that private message is not in the Archive (no published copy exists), but it is the missing context for the lone 2014 dot.
For the editorial reading of what Satoshi said about himself across this corpus, see the self-references analysis.