Without a doubt, Satoshi Nakamoto is one of the greatest inventors of our time. He delivered the project that an entire generation of cypherpunks tried to build in the 1990s and early 2000s but never figured out how to pull off, then stuck around for a couple of years to explain to everyone how it works. Just when Bitcoin started making waves and proved its usefulness as unstoppable internet money, Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared... leaving us with lots of unanswered questions and a decade and a half of governance struggles that aim to find the meaning of the word ”consensus”.
During his time among us, Satoshi posted 539 times on Bitcoin Talk. He e-mailed the Metzdowd cryptography mailing list 18 times, and corresponded with Hal Finney in private 15 times. He also collaborated with Martti Malmi and sent him no less than 144 e-mails that we have (and probably even more that got lost).
Needless to say, the words of Satoshi Nakamoto carry a lot of weight because they set us on a mission to figure out the hard problems that he was not able to. And in the era of AI, when forgeries can be generated very easily, there's a lot of value in archiving and preserving every source of truth.
Which is why I am happy to announce the creation and launch of the Satoshi Nakamoto Archive on the Bitcoin Takeover website, which you can access here:
https://bitcoin-takeover.com/satoshi/Now you can search through the entire archive of Satoshi Nakamoto e-mails, forum posts, and public messages. Filter these resources by source (the person with whom Satoshi corresponded), topic, and year. Find key words and phrases and take a look at the patterns behind Satoshi's work on Bitcoin (the days and times he was active). Then listen to some of the Satoshi collaborators who have been interviewed on the Bitcoin Takeover podcast!
While I'm aware that other similar projects exist on the Nakamoto Institute's page and on Bitcoin.com, I believe that redundancy is important and having this content stored in an unaltered state is important. I also think that the search features and the fact that you can identify certain Satoshi Nakamoto quotes just by clicking on categories is super valuable. With this project, I want to make it easier for everyone to find the wisdom of Satoshi Nakamoto and maybe get inspired to do something amazing!
Without further ado, I invite you all to check the Satoshi Nakamoto Archive on Bitcoin-Takeover.com!
