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Cobra (also Cøbra): Pseudonymous operator and guardian of bitcoin.org, the website originally registered by Satoshi in 2008. Chose to lose a copyright suit by default rather than reveal his identity.
The Mixmaster developer who died 68 days after Satoshi's last known email. The evidence for Len Sassaman as Satoshi, weighed.
American cryptographer (1980-2011), Mixmaster lead developer, KU Leuven PhD candidate. Died by suicide 68 days after Satoshi's last message. Later named in a Satoshi-identity hypothesis.
Satoshi warns Malmi to de-emphasize Bitcoin's anonymity claims, distinguishing between anonymity and pseudonymity - a prescient warning about privacy expectations.
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.
Satoshi clarifies Bitcoin uses Hashcash-style SHA-256 proof-of-work (not signatures), explains proportional mining chances, and addresses identity and double-spending prevention.
Eric Hughes posts A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, dated March 9, 1993, to the list: privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself, and "Cypherpunks write code."
Eric Hughes, a mathematician, co-founded the Cypherpunks in 1992, ran their mailing list, built early anonymous remailers, and wrote A Cypherpunk's Manifesto on March 9, 1993.
How a 1992 Oakland meeting became the Cypherpunks mailing list: the name, the remailers, the Clipper fight, the 1997 split, and the Hashcash and b-money posts the Bitcoin whitepaper later cited.
Cryptographer who invented blind signatures at CRYPTO '82 and founded DigiCash in 1990 to build eCash, an anonymous digital currency two decades before Bitcoin. DigiCash went bankrupt in 1998.