Lance Cottrell

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Event September 21, 1992 Added September 27, 2026 Updated October 3, 2026 Analysis

The Cypherpunks: where Bitcoin's building blocks were first posted

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Timothy May, Eric Hughes, Hal Finney, Adam Back, Wei Dai, David Chaum, Len Sassaman, Satoshi Nakamoto, John Gilmore

How a 1992 Oakland meeting became the Cypherpunks mailing list: the name, the remailers, the Clipper fight, the 1997 split, and the Hashcash and b-money posts the Bitcoin whitepaper later cited.

Event July 3, 2011 Added April 29, 2026 Updated November 9, 2026 Biography

Len Sassaman (1980–2011) — Cypherpunk cryptographer, Mixmaster developer

Len Sassaman

American cryptographer (1980-2011), Mixmaster lead developer, KU Leuven PhD candidate. Died by suicide 68 days after Satoshi's last message. Later named in a Satoshi-identity hypothesis.