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Cobra's response on X, posted hours after the London High Court ordered bitcoin.org to remove the Bitcoin whitepaper following Craig Wright's default judgment.
The earliest known email from Satoshi Nakamoto: contacting Adam Back to verify the Hashcash citation and sharing a pre-release draft titled 'Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party'.
Bitcoin v0.1 reuses one cypherpunk primitive (PoW from Hashcash), borrows general CS components (Merkle trees, linked timestamping, ECDSA), and synthesizes the rest (UTXO, mining, 21M cap, P2P).
After the London High Court ordered bitcoin.org to remove the Bitcoin whitepaper, Cobra responded on Twitter with a critique declaring cryptographic rules superior to court-enforced ones.
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.
Satoshi Nakamoto's earliest known email. He contacts Adam Back to verify the Hashcash paper citation and shares a pre-release draft titled 'Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party' (ecash.pdf).
An early draft of the Bitcoin whitepaper dated October 3, 2008, predating the final by ~a month. Shared privately before the Cryptography ML announcement on October 31, 2008.
The final Bitcoin whitepaper, 'Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,' published October 31, 2008. Hosted at bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf, announced on the Cryptography Mailing List.
Satoshi emails Wei Dai asking for the correct b-money citation, revealing he learned of it via Adam Back. The email linked the pre-release draft 'Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party'.
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.