Satoshi Nakamoto Updated 2025-07-16
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bitcoin.org registration: 2008-08-18
2008-08-22: first private contact to Wei Dai email. Reproduced at www.gwern.net/docs/bitcoin/2008-nakamoto on gwern.net from address satoshi@anonymousspeech.com. Email provider shutting down entirely on 2021-09-30 as per archive.ph/wip/RRNKx, homepage now juts contains useless Bitcoin stuff.
First public Bitcoin whitepaper announcement: 2008-10-31 www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-October/014810.html linking to www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf, email sent from from satoshi@vistomail.com. Claimed one year and a half development time. Provider apparently closed in 2014: www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3h80mi/vistomailcom_closed_and_domain_changed_owner_in/, as of 2021 just reads:
Once upon a time a man paid me a visit in cyberspace, at this very domain. He planted a seed in our heads that would become the path we are walking today.
Replies in November: www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-November/thread.html#14863 under satoshi@anonymousspeech.com claims source code shared privately by request at that point.
First open source release: 9 January 2009. Announcement: www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2009-January/014994.html "Windows only for now. Open source C++ code is included" Arghhhhhh how can those libertarians use Microsoft Windows??? Had a GUI already.
2011-04-23 Satoshi sent his last email ever, it was to Martti Malmi. www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/business/decoding-the-enigma-of-satoshi-nakamoto-and-the-birth-of-bitcoin.html mentions:
May 2011 was also the last time Satoshi communicated privately with other Bitcoin contributors. In an email that month to Martti Malmi, one of the earliest participants, Satoshi wrote, "I've moved on to other things and probably won't be around in the future."
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Two-stage P2SH inscription Updated 2025-07-16
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To decode these, we throw away the last tx and the last constant of each input, e.g.:
btc getrawtransaction 033d185d1a04c4bd6de9bb23985f8c15aa46234206ad29101c31f4b33f1a0e49 true | jq -r '.vin[].scriptSig.asm' | head -n -1 | sed -r 's/ [^ ]+$//' | tr -d '\n'  | xxd -r -p > tmp.jpg
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Updated 2025-07-16
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AMD Instinct Updated 2025-07-16
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ATI Technologies Updated 2025-07-16
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Bôbar (École Polytechnique) Updated 2025-07-16
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The student organized bar of the École. There's a corresponding Binet that takes care of it.
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B-tree Updated 2025-07-16
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Like Binary search tree, but each node can have multiple objects and more than two children.
Figure 1. Source.
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Data Insertion in Bitcoin's Blockchain by Andrew Sward, Vecna OP_0 and Forrest Stonedahl Updated 2025-07-16
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Epyc Updated 2025-07-16
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Fake P2PKH address Updated 2025-07-16
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List of bitcoin blocks Updated 2025-07-16
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Pay-to-Fake-Multisig Updated 2025-07-16
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pyBullet Updated 2025-07-16
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Became very popular as of result of people using Bullet Physics for reinforcement learning AI training robot simulations.
Source code: somewhere inside the main Bullet Physics source tree. Yay.
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python-bitcoin-blockchain-parser Updated 2025-07-16
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Is it mega fast? Nope
Does it work? Yup.
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Global Interpreter Lock Updated 2025-09-09
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Bitcoin address Updated 2025-07-16
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BusyBox Updated 2025-07-16
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Chordate subclade Updated 2025-07-16
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CIA 2010 covert communication websites / Fingerprints Updated 2025-07-16
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From The Reuters websites and others we've found, we can establish see some clear stylistic trends across the websites which would allow us to find other likely candidates upon inspection:
The most notable dissonance from the rest of the web is that there are no commercial looking website of companies, presumably because it was felt that it would be possible to verify the existence of such companies.
Most domains are the only domain for its IP, i.e. the websites are mostly private hosted. However we have later found many exceptions to this general indicator, so it should not be used as a strong exclusion rule.
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CIA 2010 covert communication websites / TODO Updated 2025-07-16
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