Bitcoin Institute

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  • BitcoinTalk (2546)

    BitcoinTalk is the Bitcoin discussion forum Satoshi Nakamoto founded in 2009, where he and early contributors like Hal Finney posted directly.

  • Malmi Email Archive (285)

    Martti Malmi's own archive of his private 2009–2011 email correspondence with Satoshi Nakamoto, published on GitHub in 2024 for the COPA v. Wright trial.

  • GitHub (111)

    GitHub hosts Bitcoin Core's repository, BIPs, and pull-request and issue discussions since 2011, plus developers' repos and profiles cited as primary sources.

  • Bitcoin Wiki (41)

    Bitcoin Wiki is a community-run MediaWiki encyclopedia; its Source: namespace hosts a transcribed archive of Satoshi's January 2009 emails to Dustin Trammell.

  • Cryptography Mailing List (37)

    A cryptography mailing list run by Perry Metzger, where Satoshi Nakamoto announced the Bitcoin whitepaper in October 2008 and answered early questions.

  • Plan99 (Mike Hearn) (37)

    Mike Hearn's personal blog, where the early Bitcoin developer published essays quoting his private email exchanges with Satoshi Nakamoto.

  • Wikipedia (33)

    Wikipedia is a crowd-edited encyclopedia cited here for background on Bitcoin-related people and companies, not a venue Satoshi or his contemporaries used.

  • Bitcoin Whitepaper (24)

    Satoshi Nakamoto's whitepaper, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System," was published October 31, 2008, and is hosted at bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf.

  • Bitcoin-list (20)

    Bitcoin-list was the SourceForge-hosted mailing list Satoshi Nakamoto used to announce Bitcoin software releases, from v0.1 in 2009 to v0.3.19 in 2010.

  • Bitcoin Magazine (16)

    Bitcoin Magazine is a Bitcoin-focused news outlet founded in 2012 that publishes reporting and analysis on Bitcoin history and figures like Satoshi Nakamoto.

  • Cypherpunks Mailing List (13)

    On the Cypherpunks Mailing List through the 1990s, Hal Finney, Adam Back, and Wei Dai discussed digital cash proposals like b-money before Bitcoin existed.

  • SourceForge (13)

    SourceForge hosted Bitcoin's early source releases and the mailing list where Satoshi Nakamoto posted code and announcements, 2009-2010.

  • X (Twitter) (12)

    X, formerly Twitter, is the social platform itself, where contemporaries like Hal Finney posted directly, such as his 2009 "Running bitcoin" tweet.

  • CoinDesk (11)

    CoinDesk is a cryptocurrency news outlet that reports on Bitcoin history, including archival Satoshi Nakamoto correspondence obtained from third parties.

  • P2P Foundation (10)

    P2P Foundation's Ning-hosted community site, where Satoshi Nakamoto held a profile and announced the newly released Bitcoin software in February 2009.

  • Gwern (8)

    gwern.net is the personal research archive of Gwern Branwen, who mirrors external documents (including Bitcoin papers and court judgments) to prevent link rot.

  • P2P Research List (7)

    A P2P Foundation mailing list for peer-to-peer theory and practice research, where Satoshi personally posted his Bitcoin announcement in February 2009.

  • LessWrong (6)

    LessWrong is a rationalist online discussion forum; entries cite a 2014 AMA thread where Bitcoin precursor Wei Dai discussed Satoshi Nakamoto's identity.

  • Riski Wiki (5)

    Riski Wiki (RiskiPedia) is a wiki explaining everyday risks, founded by former Bitcoin Core lead maintainer Gavin Andresen, who posts his personal blog there.

  • Bitcoin.org (4)

    Bitcoin.org is the project website Satoshi registered in 2008 and used directly to publish the whitepaper PDF and his own early explanatory pages.

  • Bitslog (Sergio Lerner) (4)

    Bitslog is the personal blog of security researcher Sergio Demian Lerner, known for his Patoshi-pattern analysis of Satoshi-era Bitcoin mining.

  • Unenumerated (Nick Szabo) (3)

    Nick Szabo's personal blog, active from 2005 to 2018, where the bit gold creator posted his own essays on money, law, and Bitcoin's origins.

  • metzdowd.com (3)

    The Cryptography Mailing List hosted at metzdowd.com by Perry Metzger, where Satoshi Nakamoto posted the Bitcoin whitepaper announcement on October 31, 2008.

  • The New York Times (3)

    The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded in 1851, cited here for its later journalistic investigations into Satoshi Nakamoto's identity and other Bitcoin reporting.

  • Craig Wright Blog (3)

    Craig Wright's personal website, drcraigwright.net, where in May 2016 he posted his claimed signature proof of being Satoshi and, three days later, an apology.

  • Medium (3)

    Medium is a general blogging platform; entries here are later third-party analysis or speculation about Satoshi, not writings by Satoshi or his contemporaries.

  • Satoshi Nakamoto Institute (2)

    A nonprofit founded in 2013 to archive and republish Satoshi Nakamoto's writings and other early Bitcoin-era source material as a historical library.

  • Cointelegraph (2)

    Cointelegraph, a cryptocurrency news outlet founded in 2013, reports on and interviews sources about early Bitcoin history — not primary Satoshi-era material.

  • Forbes (2)

    Forbes is an American business magazine that has reported on Bitcoin's early history and investigated Satoshi Nakamoto's identity.

  • Bitcoin Core (2)

    Bitcoin Core is the Bitcoin network's reference-implementation software, a direct descendant of the client Satoshi Nakamoto first released; entries cite its GitHub commit history and release notes.

  • Wired (2)

    Wired, the U.S. tech magazine, published Benjamin Wallace's Nov. 2011 feature "The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin," an early mainstream-press account of Bitcoin.

  • Newsweek (2)

    Newsweek is an American news magazine whose March 2014 cover story identified Dorian Nakamoto as Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator, a claim he denied.

  • BBC (2)

    BBC News is the online news service of the British Broadcasting Corporation; entries here cite its reporting on Bitcoin-related events and people.

  • Gavin Andresen Blog (2)

    The personal blogs of Gavin Andresen, who succeeded Satoshi as Bitcoin's lead maintainer in 2010: "GavinThink" and gavinandresen.ninja, where he posted on Bitcoin and other topics.

  • Peter Todd Blog (2)

    The personal blog of Peter Todd, a Bitcoin Core developer active since 2012, covering protocol design, consensus rules, and projects like OpenTimestamps.

  • CNBC (2)

    CNBC is a mainstream business news outlet; entries here cite its later reporting on Bitcoin and crypto-market events, not any venue Satoshi or contemporaries used.

  • LinkedIn (2)

    LinkedIn, the professional networking site; the sole entry here is an early Bitcoin contributor's retrospective essay, published years after the events it describes.

  • Of Numbers (2)

    Tim Swanson's cryptocurrency-industry blog "Great Wall of Numbers," home to his 2018 interview with early Bitcoin code reviewer Ray Dillinger.

  • CoinGecko (2)

    CoinGecko is an independent cryptocurrency data aggregator founded in 2014, tracking price and market-cap data for thousands of coins as a later reference, not a venue Satoshi used.

  • Lopp Blog (2)

    Cypherpunk Cogitations is Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp's blog, publishing original research such as blockchain analysis of Satoshi's mining activity.

  • BitcoinDefense.org (2)

    BitcoinDefense.org is the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit that funds developers' legal defense and hosts filings such as the COPA v Wright judgment.

  • HBO (2)

    HBO is the network behind the 2024 documentary "Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery," naming developer Peter Todd a Satoshi Nakamoto candidate, a claim he denies.

  • BitcoinTreasuries.net (2)

    BitcoinTreasuries.net is a data-tracking site founded in 2020 by Coinkite co-founder NVK that catalogs and ranks Bitcoin held by public companies, private entities, funds, and governments.

  • AnonymousSpeech (1)

    AnonymousSpeech.com was a paid anonymous domain-registration and email service; Satoshi Nakamoto used it in August 2008 to register bitcoin.org and send his first known outbound emails.

  • Bitcoin Optech (1)

    Bitcoin Optech is the Bitcoin Operations Technology Group founded in 2018, years after Satoshi Nakamoto stopped posting, publishing technical explainers such as its time-warp attack page.

  • Bitcoin.com Satoshi's Archive (1)

    Bitcoin.com's Satoshi's Archive project — a later mirror, not the venue he posted on — reproduced Satoshi Nakamoto's posts from the early Bitcoin Forum.

  • Blockchain.com (1)

    Blockchain.com is a public Bitcoin block explorer launched in 2011, used here to look up and cite specific on-chain transaction records.

  • InfoWorld (1)

    InfoWorld is an American technology magazine; its May 2010 roundup of open-source projects gave Bitcoin four paragraphs, seven weeks before Slashdot.

  • Slashdot (1)

    Slashdot is a technology news and discussion site; its user-submitted stories and comment threads reported on and discussed early Bitcoin releases and news.

  • Trakx (1)

    Trakx is a crypto-index trading platform whose Insights blog publishes educational articles on Bitcoin history, such as a profile of the miner KnightMB.

  • New York Magazine (1)

    An American magazine whose Intelligencer section ran a 2025 excerpt from Benjamin Wallace's book on tracking down Satoshi Nakamoto's identity.

  • The New Yorker (1)

    The New Yorker, a long-running American weekly magazine whose October 2011 feature by Joshua Davis investigated Satoshi Nakamoto's possible identity.

  • Fox Business (1)

    Fox Business is a U.S. cable business-news channel; entries cite its TV segments reporting on or discussing Bitcoin, not a venue Satoshi used.

  • TechCrunch (1)

    TechCrunch is a US technology news website; its cited article reports on speculative research into Satoshi Nakamoto's real identity.

  • NPR (1)

    NPR is a US public radio and news network; entries here are its news reports on Bitcoin-related events, not writings by Satoshi or his contemporaries.

  • Extropians (1)

    Extropians.com, not the 1990s Extropians mailing list, published Hal Finney's death announcement, written by his wife Fran Finney on the day he died in 2014.

  • Japan FSA (1)

    Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) is the country's financial regulator; this page on its site hosts virtual-currency policy notices, including the 2017 exchange-registration mandate.

  • Linux Foundation (1)

    The Linux Foundation's mailing-list platform hosts bitcoin-segwit2x, created in 2017 to coordinate the SegWit2x hard fork, long after Satoshi Nakamoto stopped posting.

  • Breaker Magazine (1)

    BreakerMag was a crypto-journalism outlet active 2018–2019, cited for a first-person essay by early Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik on Bitcoin's first decade.

  • Alcor Life Extension (1)

    Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the cryonics nonprofit that cryopreserved Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney, profiled him in 2019, five years after his death.

  • Ontario Securities Commission (1)

    The Ontario Securities Commission is Ontario, Canada's provincial securities regulator; entries here cite its June 2020 staff report on the 2019 collapse of the QuadrigaCX exchange.

  • Chain Bulletin (1)

    Chain Bulletin is a cryptocurrency news and research outlet whose reporting analyzes Satoshi Nakamoto's activity years later, not a venue he used.

  • blockchainresearchlab (1)

  • BitMEX Research (1)

    BitMEX Research is crypto exchange BitMEX's analysis blog, publishing forensic investigations into Bitcoin's early blockchain history.

  • NDRC (1)

    The official site of China's National Development and Reform Commission, a State Council economic-planning agency; hosts the September 2021 notice ordering a nationwide crypto-mining shutdown.

  • PLOS ONE (1)

    PLOS ONE is a peer-reviewed open-access science journal; the archive cites its 2021 paper analyzing anomalous nonce patterns in early Bitcoin blocks.

  • Stephan Livera Podcast (1)

    A Bitcoin podcast hosted by Stephan Livera since 2018, interviewing developers, economists, and other figures about Bitcoin history, technology, and economics.

  • SerHack (1)

    SerHack Blog is an independent security researcher's site covering reverse engineering and cryptocurrency, including an analysis of Bitcoin's early source code.

  • Mempool.space (1)

    Mempool.space is an open-source Bitcoin block explorer; entries cite it for verifiable on-chain records, such as the genesis block or early coin movements.

  • OpenCrypto (1)

    OpenCrypto is the Crypto Open Patent Alliance's site, which reported on the COPA v. Craig Wright trial and published court-disclosed Satoshi correspondence.

  • UK Judiciary (1)

    The official website of the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary of England and Wales; hosts the 2024 High Court ruling that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto.

  • ForensicXs (1)

    Forensicxs is an independent cybersecurity blog that publishes ethical-hacking write-ups, including a 2024 code walkthrough of Bitcoin Core v0.1.

  • Bloomberg Tax (1)

    Bloomberg Tax is Bloomberg Industry Group's tax-law news service, cited here for its later reporting on governments' tax and regulatory actions on Bitcoin, not a venue Satoshi used.

  • CoinGeek (1)

    CoinGeek is a blockchain-news site founded by Calvin Ayre that covers the Bitcoin SV (BSV) ecosystem and publishes articles about early Bitcoin history.

  • GovInfo (1)

    GovInfo is the U.S. Government Publishing Office's official website for federal publications, launched in 2016; entries here cite its record of presidential documents such as executive orders.

  • The Daily Galaxy (1)

    The Daily Galaxy is a science and discovery news outlet founded in 2007; its cited article reports on a 2025 FOIA lawsuit seeking DHS records about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity.

  • Uncommons (1)

    Uncommons is a Chinese-language crypto-culture interview blog; one entry in its Crypto Flight series has a contemporary recalling correspondence with Satoshi.

  • Decrypt (1)

    Decrypt is a cryptocurrency and Web3 news outlet founded in 2018 that reports on Bitcoin history and figures like Satoshi Nakamoto, not a venue he or his contemporaries used.

  • NIST (1)

    NIST's official project page for post-quantum cryptography standards, cited here as background on quantum threats to Bitcoin's cryptographic algorithms.

  • Ethereum.org (1)

    ethereum.org is Ethereum's own website, funded by the Ethereum Foundation and built by community contributors, hosting Vitalik Buterin's 2014 whitepaper cited here for comparison with Bitcoin.

  • GetMonero.org (1)

    Getmonero.org is the website of Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency launched in 2014, whose Research Lab published the annotated CryptoNote technical paper cited here — not a venue Satoshi used.

  • Cardano.org (1)

    cardano.org is the website for Cardano, a proof-of-stake blockchain launched in 2017 and stewarded by the Cardano Foundation — a comparison cryptocurrency's own site, not a venue Satoshi used.

  • Polkadot Whitepaper (1)

    Gavin Wood's Polkadot whitepaper, published November 2016 and hosted on Polkadot's own site, describes a separate cryptocurrency's design -- not a venue Satoshi or his contemporaries used.

  • Solana Whitepaper (1)

    Solana's own technical whitepaper, first drafted in 2017 by Solana creator Anatoly Yakovenko and hosted on Solana's own site, cited here for comparison with Bitcoin, not a venue Satoshi used.

  • Ripple Whitepaper (1)

    A 2014 whitepaper, "The Ripple Protocol Consensus Algorithm," by David Schwartz, Noah Youngs, and Arthur Britto, hosted at ripple.com and later flagged as outdated.

  • Tether Whitepaper (1)

    Tether's own June 2016 whitepaper, hosted on tether.to, describes the company's USDT stablecoin design and admitted risks, not a venue Satoshi or his contemporaries used.

  • CENTRE Whitepaper (1)

    CENTRE, the consortium Circle and Coinbase co-founded in 2018 to set fiat-stablecoin standards, published this whitepaper (version 2.0, May 2018) defining USDC's design before dissolving in 2023.