John Levine

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Event August 21, 2008 Added August 13, 2026 Updated November 9, 2026 Analysis

What they said about Satoshi — from first doubts to a Nobel nomination

Satoshi Nakamoto ↔ Hal Finney, Adam Back, Ray Dillinger, James A. Donald, John Levine, Wei Dai, Mike Hearn, Martti Malmi, Jeff Garzik, Laszlo Hanyecz, Benjamin Wallace, Dan Kaminsky, Sergio Demian Lerner, Jameson Lopp, Nick Szabo, James Mellor

Doubters called it unscalable in 2008. A famed hacker failed to break the code. A judge, a dictionary, and a Nobel nominator weighed in. What others said about Satoshi, read as one record.

Event October 31, 2008 Added August 12, 2026 Updated November 9, 2026 Article

Satoshi posts the Bitcoin whitepaper — 18 months of code already behind it

Satoshi Nakamoto ↔ James A. Donald, Hal Finney

Eight pages posted to a mailing list on October 31, 2008 — a report on a working system that had been 18 months in the making. It met silence first, then doubts about scale.