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Satoshi's Archive

Learn About Bitcoin From Satoshi Nakamoto’s Emails And Posts

Satoshi’s Archive gathers the most important primary and secondary source material on the creation of Bitcoin in a highly searchable research database.

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How to use this archive

You can search any document in the archive by author, dates, and keywords. Try out terms like micropayment, VISA, Moore's Law, Mike Hearn, node, anonymous. Results will appear in real-time.

Some terms that are popular now that were not in use then. For example, if you want to find references to the blocksize limit, you might search simply limit.

In general you will find the best search results by typing less to account for variations of words like plurals. Rather than anonymity, for example, just start with anon and you’ll get both anonymity and anonymous.

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