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.
286 entries / 3 threads
Satoshi's last email in the Malmi archive (Feb 22, 2011): a reply to Gavin, copied to Martti, handing each of them the bitcoin-list mailman password in a PGP-encrypted block.
Gavin warns that distributing the forum database would betray registered users' trust, supports daily PGP-encrypted backups, and offers to pay for Amazon S3 storage if backups stay under a gigabyte.
Malmi, wanting 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 warns Malmi to de-emphasize Bitcoin's anonymity claims, distinguishing between anonymity and pseudonymity - a prescient warning about privacy expectations.
Liberty Standard notifies Satoshi that the Bitcoin website is down, showing a bitweaver TEST mode warning instead of the normal page.
Satoshi emphasizes that autostart with minimize-to-tray is 'a must-have feature' for network growth, comparing it to early file-sharing strategies. Implemented by Malmi for Bitcoin 0.2.
Malmi proposes a Bitcoin-to-euro exchange service. Satoshi answers with a fixed support-price idea and says he will not run an exchange himself; Malmi's own bitcoinexchange.com followed in 2010.
Satoshi suggests using the word 'cryptocurrency' to describe Bitcoin and asks Malmi to remove investment language from the site - a key moment in Bitcoin's branding history.
Satoshi and Malmi spent 2009 to 2010 correcting the bitcoin.org FAQ word by word, and readers still wrote to Satoshi when something went wrong. 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.
In earlier answers compiled for Malmi, Satoshi weighs Bitcoin's energy use against banking's costs and names the tension between economic liberty and conservation.
Malmi agrees to develop the Bitcoin website and FAQ, proposes password-protected private keys, and reports running a Bitcoin node 24/7.
Satoshi's first reply to Martti Malmi, who had offered to help with Bitcoin. Satoshi praises Malmi's understanding of Bitcoin and asks him to help write website content and a FAQ.
Martti Malmi's first message to Satoshi: introduces himself as Trickstern from the anti-state.com forum, offers to help with Bitcoin development.