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23 entries reference this keyword in body prose.
By 2008 Microsoft's free compiler wanted a Passport sign-in. Satoshi built Bitcoin on a 1998 Visual C++ 6.0 and free MinGW. The registration era, pseudonymous sign-ups, and a design with no account.
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.
Eric Hughes, a mathematician, co-founded the Cypherpunks in 1992, ran their mailing list, built early anonymous remailers, and wrote A Cypherpunk's Manifesto on March 9, 1993.
Timothy May, an Intel physicist who retired at 35, wrote The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto in 1988, co-founded the Cypherpunks in 1992, and stayed a skeptic of crypto hype until his death in 2018.
When correspondents wished Satoshi merry Christmas, predicted Bitcoin at $10M per coin, or hoped he was doing well, his replies opened on the technical topic and never returned. Five-pattern audit.
Satoshi coded Bitcoin on Windows for 27 months, mainly with MinGW. In November 2009 he finished the Linux build Martti Malmi had started; by mid-2010 there were Windows, Linux and Mac releases.
b-money is whitepaper reference [1], his Crypto++ shipped inside Bitcoin v0.1, and he was the second person Satoshi contacted. The evidence for Wei Dai as Satoshi, weighed.
He built RPOW, received the first Bitcoin transaction, and lived blocks from Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto. The evidence for Hal Finney as Satoshi, weighed.
On February 22, 2021, Evan Hatch published Len Sassaman and Satoshi: a Cypherpunk history on Medium — the article that became the foundational case for the Sassaman = Satoshi Nakamoto hypothesis.
A reply that read like the continuation of Satoshi's thought — and two days later, Satoshi went silent. The evidence for HBO's Peter Todd identification, weighed.
Recurring Satoshi candidates aligned across four independent layers — profile match, stylometric attribution, direct correspondence, and development environment.
The Mixmaster developer who died 68 days after Satoshi's last known email. The evidence for Len Sassaman as Satoshi, weighed.
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.
Editorial reading of Bitcoin v0.1's unusual distribution and tooling absences (.rar packaging, no version control, no tests), placed against Warez-scene conventions and Kaminsky's 2011 security audit.
American developer (luke-jr), long-tenured Bitcoin Core contributor. Maintains Bitcoin Knots; co-founded Ocean mining pool (2023). Suffered a $3.5M+ wallet theft in late 2022 (compromised PGP key).
Hal Finney's private email to Satoshi during pre-release code review, asking foundational scalability questions: 'How large do you envision it becoming? Tens of nodes? Thousands? Millions?'
Harold Thomas Finney II (1956–2014): Caltech engineer, PGP 2.0 developer, Extropian, cryonics advocate, RPOW creator, first Bitcoin recipient and first known person other than Satoshi to run Bitcoin.
The first known tweet about Bitcoin. Hal Finney posted 'Running bitcoin' two days after Bitcoin v0.1 was released, on January 10/11, 2009. He was the first known person other than Satoshi to run it.
Tim Swanson's comprehensive interview with Ray Dillinger for the Bitcoin whitepaper's 10th anniversary. Dillinger reveals technical details of his code review, including the floating-point discovery.
Malmi, planning more bitcoin.org server admins after an outage, offers the root password to Satoshi and one more person; Satoshi answers that the other person should be Gavin Andresen.
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.
The day after Newsweek named Dorian Nakamoto as Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi's dormant P2P Foundation account posted a one-sentence denial. The post's authenticity has been debated since.
Hal Finney, the first known person besides Satoshi to run Bitcoin and the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction, passes away from ALS at the age of 58.