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El Salvador's Bitcoin Law took effect on September 7, 2021, requiring merchants nationwide to accept bitcoin and launching the government's Chivo wallet with a $30 sign-up incentive.
Craig Wright sued bitcoin.org operator Cobra over Bitcoin whitepaper copyright. Cobra refused to reveal his identity, resulting in a default judgment ordering bitcoin.org to remove the whitepaper.
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.
CoinMarketCap recorded Ethereum's market cap at roughly 85% of Bitcoin's on June 12, 2017 — the closest the name behind 'the flippening' ever came to the number, before both fell back.
Aston University Centre for Forensic Linguistics released Project Bitcoin (April 2014): a stylometric study under Jack Grieve naming Szabo as the most likely whitepaper author among 11 candidates.
Hanyecz recalls Satoshi's private pushback on his May 10, 2010 BitcoinTalk GPU-mining announcement. The verifiable element is the announcement; Satoshi's side comes from Hanyecz's later interviews.
Satoshi tells Finney that he cannot receive incoming connections from his location, revealing an operational constraint in the earliest days of the Bitcoin network.
Editorial forensic reading of Satoshi's operational environment during Bitcoin v0.1 launch week (Jan 8-12, 2009): "from where I am" in the Jan 12 email to Finney, and dense activity cadence.
Satoshi personally notifies Hal Finney of the Bitcoin v0.1 release hours after the public Cryptography list post, sending the SourceForge link and pointing him to bitcoin.org for release notes.
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?'
Hal Finney to Satoshi during pre-release code review, asking how large the P2P node network might grow — tens to millions — and whether clients could scale to all world financial transactions.