Was there a bitcoin manuscript in the beginning from which people learnt about bitcoin and the technology, or all knowledge and explanations are just derived from experiences and tests?
Is whitepaper a document that can be considered a manuscript? Was there something else too with bitcoin, especially because it was the first one.
The only knowledge you could get back in 2008-2009 was the bitcoin dev mailing list... still to date the best thing to read on how things were built and developed. At the time, only satoshi and Hal Finney were interacting with each other (I think Hal Finney is satoshi but I will not go into that)
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/There are older emails too between satoshi and Finney, not sure when the bitcoin dev mailing list was started but the archive only goes back to 2011
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/finneynakamotoemails.pdfI dont know what you mean with manuscript exactly. I guess the only thing you could call that is the whitepaper itself.
