A cryptography mailing list run by Perry Metzger, where Satoshi Nakamoto announced the Bitcoin whitepaper in October 2008 and answered early questions.
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Ten days after the October 2008 version resurfaced, James Evans asks the cryptography list for the earlier draft Satoshi sent Wei Dai, "Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party." No one replied.
James Evans asks the cryptography list whether anyone saved the first version of the Bitcoin whitepaper, posted at bitcoin.org on October 31, 2008 before the March 24, 2009 revision replaced it.
John Gilmore objects that proof-of-work money would burn every idle cycle, consuming electricity and generating carbon dioxide all over the Internet, and asks why bank money can't simply be converted.
Satoshi announces the release of Bitcoin v0.1, the first working implementation of the Bitcoin software. Available for Windows, with the source code included.
James Donald tied the issue he pressed Satoshi on to the 1982 Byzantine Generals Problem. Satoshi said Bitcoin solved it in a network anyone could join, and explained it with a king's wi-fi password.
A remailer gave up a name to a warrant, Napster's index fell to an injunction, e-gold pleaded guilty and the Liberty Dollar was raided. In November 2008 Satoshi named the pattern.
The first person to answer the Bitcoin whitepaper, James Donald was also the only other person known to use a rare word of Satoshi's, making him Benjamin Wallace's top lead. The evidence, weighed.
Eight pages posted to a mailing list on October 31, 2008 — a report on a working system that had been 18 months in the making. It met silence first, then doubts about scale.
Satoshi Nakamoto's first public announcement of Bitcoin on the Cryptography Mailing List. He introduces a peer-to-peer electronic cash system with no trusted third party.
Doubters called it unscalable in 2008. A famed hacker failed to break the code. A judge, a dictionary, and a Nobel nominator weighed in. What others said about Satoshi, read as one record.
Hal Finney invites the list to try rpow.net: a server that takes hashcash and issues reusable RSA-signed tokens, running on an IBM 4758 card whose signed attestation lets anyone check the code.