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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.

CoinDesk published previously unseen Satoshi-Finney emails (obtained via widow Fran Finney): Finney's November 2008 scalability question and Satoshi's personal v0.1 release notice on January 8, 2009.

Doncho Karaivanov analyzes 742 activity instances across Satoshi's posts, commits, and emails, plus The Times headline and British spelling, to argue Satoshi was based in London.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bitcoin v0.3.12 was released on SourceForge with standard JSON-RPC error objects, a new backupwallet RPC command, and various network stability enhancements.

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.

Structural reading of the 2010-08-15 overflow incident — soft-fork rescue mechanics, why a 5-hour response was only achievable then, transaction-shape forensics, and the centralization paradox.

Software engineer (born 1974), Linux kernel contributor, Red Hat employee. Discovered Bitcoin via Slashdot in July 2010. Top-3 Bitcoin Core contributor, built cpuminer, wrote BIPs, co-founded Bloq.

Slashdot, an influential tech news site at the time, publishes an article about Bitcoin v0.3. SourceForge downloads jump from 624 in June to 14,094 in July.

Bitcoin v0.3 was released on SourceForge with JSON-RPC control, a daemon version, Mac OS X support, and 20% faster hashing, coinciding with the famous Slashdot posting.

Neil McAllister's InfoWorld roundup gave Bitcoin four paragraphs on May 24, 2010, naming Satoshi and the word "cryptocurrency." Downloads rose for three days, then fell back.

Bitcoin v0.2 was released on SourceForge, introducing Linux support, multi-processor mining, proxy support for Tor, and GUI improvements contributed by Martti Malmi.

Word-count and interval statistics for all 164 of Satoshi's SVN commits (r15-r202), plus diff-size stats for 158: after his 75-day silence, Satoshi's messages got shorter, not longer.

Complete record of all four developers who had commit access to Bitcoin's SourceForge SVN repository, from August 30, 2009 (r1) to September 13, 2011 (r252).

Satoshi and Malmi spent 2009 to 2010 correcting the bitcoin.org FAQ word by word — and Satoshi was still the address readers wrote to when it broke. None of that wording survives on bitcoin.org today.

Satoshi approves Malmi's first FAQ draft with small fixes. His warning against pitching Bitcoin as an investment, 'we can't pitch it as that,' came five weeks later, on June 11, 2009.

Malmi agrees to develop the Bitcoin website and FAQ, proposes password-protected private keys, and reports running a Bitcoin node 24/7.

Statistical analysis of Satoshi's Bitcoin source (v0.1.0–v0.3.19): coding-style fingerprint, commit times suggesting EST/CST, growth from 19,901 to 31,909 lines over 23 months, final-commit traits.

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.

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.

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.

Satoshi Nakamoto released Bitcoin v0.1, the first public release of the Bitcoin software, on SourceForge. This Windows-only release made it possible for anyone to run a Bitcoin node and mine coins.

Technical analysis of Bitcoin's genesis block from v0.1 source: hardcode auto-construction, the five-day gap as timestamp artifact, two-layer authorship reading, PoW headroom, key possession.

Structural reading of how "Satoshi Nakamoto" remained unidentified across development, public phase, and withdrawal. Six layers: pseudonym, channels, language, env, genesis constants, handover.

The only place Satoshi named a country for himself was one unverifiable profile. Language, timestamps, and the one actually Japanese candidate all read against that claim — and against each other.

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.

Interactive D3 timeline of every documented Satoshi event — correspondence, mailing lists, BitcoinTalk, P2P Foundation, SourceForge — from August 20, 2008 to the disputed 2014 P2P Foundation post.

Until December 30, 1996, U.S. rules listed encryption software with weapons. Zimmermann was investigated, Karn sued over a floppy disk, Bernstein won in court, and Back put RSA on a T-shirt.