Purpose:

It's the first time that mankind is able to mint its own money without involving a central authority. It seems now clear that the Nakamoto Consensus Protocol with its POW quorum system known as Bitcoin is of major historical significance, as has been the Gütenberg printing press or the TCP/IP Protocol and the World Wide Web.

When studying scientifically the genesis of a breakthrough, it is of uttermost importance to get as more information as possible about the way this breakthrough arises in the world. A lot of public information about Bitcoin is available through forums and mailing-lists. However epistomologists, historians and scientists want to become intimate with the birth and development of a major breakthrough. One valuable way to study the mindset enabling such a breakthrough is to get access to the personal correspondence between the author and her or his peers. See for instance the Albert Einstein's complete archives including personal correspondence posted online, or the Alan Türing Digital Archive. We think that the Satoshi Nakamoto personal correspondence is of highest interest for the history of science and technology.

THIS IS A CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE GATHERING OF THE SATOSHI NAKAMOTO PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Process:

This very thread is the tool used to gather Satoshi's emails in a self-organised way.

* COMMUNICATION:  

We propose that this thread be the master thread : feel free to post in any relevant forums or mailing-list a link to this thread. Don't hesitate to contact directly someone known to be a Satoshi correspondent : please report your intention or your action here to avoid spamming them.

* MATERIALS:

Attach directly to your post a compressed file of the correspondence you've managed to obtain with a sha-256 hash of the compressed file.

Please detail your material :
- who is the peer
- is the correspondence between Satoshi and the peer comprehensive or not
- are you the peer itself or not
- ideally the peer cryptographic signature of the correspondence.

IMPORTANT:

Please report every action you take regarding this project on this thread, to avoid a duplication of efforts : let's use this thread as a tool for coordinating our actions in a decentralized manner. This thread is intended to be used as a collective memory for this project for both the personal correspondence materials and the process to acquire them.


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