Keyword reference — entries that mention this term in body prose.
15 entries reference this keyword in body prose.
Asked in April 2013 how a decentralized currency came to have a chief scientist, Gavin Andresen answers with the Bitcoin Faucet, his code, and Satoshi swapping his own email address for Andresen's.
Long-time Bitcoin Core contributor (gmaxwell), Blockstream co-founder, co-developer of libsecp256k1. Authored CoinJoin, co-designed Confidential Transactions. Known for deep technical write-ups.
Benjamin Wallace's Wired feature — an early major mainstream article on Bitcoin. Traces the whitepaper, mining boom, Mt. Gox hack, and growing pains, ending with Garzik's "We really don't care."
Bitcoin's migration from SourceForge SVN to GitHub, and the chronological record of developers who received commit access to the GitHub repository in 2011.
The Mixmaster developer who died 68 days after Satoshi's last known email. The evidence for Len Sassaman as Satoshi, weighed.
Gavin Andresen replies to Satoshi's final email, accepting the alert key and disclosing that he has been invited to present Bitcoin to US intelligence agencies. Satoshi never replies to this message.
Satoshi's final known private messages: April 23, 2011 to Mike Hearn — "in good hands with Gavin." April 26 to Andresen, transferring the alert key and saying he would probably be unavailable.
Satoshi's last known private email. He transfers the Bitcoin network alert key to Gavin Andresen, asks him to stop portraying him as a 'mysterious shadowy figure,' and says he has moved on.
Satoshi's last email in the Malmi archive (Feb 22, 2011). Reply to Gavin (Martti in third person), handing over the bitcoin-list mailman password as PGP blocks to each.
Bitcoin v0.3.19 was released on SourceForge as Satoshi Nakamoto's final release, adding DoS protections and removing safe mode alerts before his departure.
No single day handed Bitcoin to Gavin Andresen: his own commits from October 11, a server-admin pick on December 3, Satoshi's last post on December 12, and his December 19 announcement.
Bitcoin v0.3.18 was released on SourceForge, one of Satoshi's last releases, featuring wallet compatibility fixes and Gavin Andresen's accounts-based JSON-RPC commands.
In September 2010, Satoshi privately tells Andresen he is working on other projects — the earliest documented signal of his intent to step back. The repository and alert key followed.
Software developer (born 1966), founder of Wasabi Software, creator of the Bitcoin Faucet. Chosen by Satoshi to lead the project; served as Bitcoin lead maintainer from 2010 to 2014.
Unidentified individual or group who authored the Bitcoin white paper (October 31, 2008), wrote the software, mined the genesis block, and guided early development before disappearing in April 2011.