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The current version of the whitepaper uploaded on Sourceforge is from 2009-03-24. This is the second version of the whitepaper. The first version was published on 2008-10-31. It was uploaded to www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf which is where the current version also resides. Does anyone have the original version of the whitepaper?

I have emailed the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute but have not heard back from them. Sergio Demian Lerner mentions the first version of the whitepaper on his blog but I have been unable to get him to send me a copy.

I was talking to Gwern awhile back and he said the same thing....he has heard a rumor of it, but has never been able to locate it.

This is about the only thing I could find.....sorry.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090131115053/http://bitcoin.org/

http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography%40metzdowd.com/msg09959.html

https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography%40metzdowd.com/msg09964.html

Update: I emailed a friend to see if he has a copy. I'll get back later.......

Update to Update: no copy found. ..

The first one had a lot more stuff about how people should avoid cloud mining scams, but they removed it because they felt it was too obvious and nobody would actually need to be told that.

Thanks billbags. I emailed everyone on the cryptography mailing list who had replied but nobody had a copy.

I actually downloaded and read it at the time. But I'm not sure I have a copy. Anyway not on any media which is readily accessible.

I made this reddit thread if anyone wants to upvote : https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2tfcsc/2008_revision_of_bitcoin_whitepaper/

ROFL

Huh, that's really interesting, never heard about that! So there really was a previous draft? Did it contain serious problems, disadvantages or flaws? Or was it just some improvements concerning wording and such? I'd love to hear more about that!

Me too, somebody please start a topic asking for a copy of the original draft

Please, quit fuckin' with me! https://twitter.com/FirstWhitePaper

Oh wow, that's interesting! I really wonder why no one is in possession of that document. Someone should do a diff and do a direct side-by-side comparison! I might just go ahead and see if I can find it somewhere online!

so, any major difference between first and second version that makes the first worth reading too?

Try this?

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Has anybody looked in the Wayback Machine?

wayback machine usually doesn't save pictures and files. Specially if it is not a small one, like the Satoshi paper

I beg to differ. I once retrieved a Shockwave application from it.

It is not on the Wayback Machine. I checked some time ago.

Someone says that a copy is in the blockchain - https://blockexplorer.com/tx/54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c95aa583d07ebe84dde3b7dd4a78f4e4186e713

http://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photographs.html - Scroll Down

Who knows if its the one which is available currently also.

This is pretty interesting: https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/how-you-will-not-uncover-satoshi/