During the lawsuit between the non-profit organization and the Australian entrepreneur, previously unreleased emails from the creator of Bitcoin were disclosed.
During the lawsuit between the COPA organization and Craig Wright, between February 22nd and 23rd, over 260 previously unreleased emails between Satoshi Nakamoto and the early developers of the Bitcoin protocol were released.
After being questioned as a witness in favor of COPA, Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream, shared with the English court the complete timeline of the email exchange between him and Satoshi.
The first email dates back to August 2008, when Satoshi first contacted Back, asking if the citation of his Hashcash paper to be included in the future Bitcoin white paper was correct.
In subsequent emails, Back suggested to Satoshi to check Wei Dai’s B-money paper given the similarities with Bitcoin’s goals.
In the last email, Satoshi thanked Back for pointing out Wei Dai’s paper and informed him of the release of the Bitcoin software along with the website www.bitcoin.org.
As stated multiple times, Back confirmed that he did not further engage with Bitcoin until 2012.
In this thread, you can read the complete list of emails between Back and Satoshi:
The other emails revealed during the lawsuit concern the exchange of communications between Satoshi and Martti Malmi, a Bitcoin developer between 2009 and 2011. Malmi, known by the pseudonym Sirius, communicated directly with Satoshi Nakamoto via email and IRC chat.
He was one of the first contributors to the website www.bitcoin.org, making various design and copywriting updates. For example, Malmi created the content for the FAQ page of the website.
During his interrogation on February 21st, Malmi emphasized the clear distinction between Satoshi and Craig Wright, not recognizing them as the same person.
The day after the interrogation, Malmi decided to release the communications between him and Satoshi.
Here you can read all the emails exchanged between the two.
In the correspondence, the importance of running a Bitcoin node to support the network is mentioned, and various technical features and future developments of Bitcoin are discussed, such as the interface for server-side scripting languages and the security of private keys. Topics such as creating new bitcoin, wallet security, preventing double-spending, network scalability, and decentralization are addressed. Satoshi then reflects on the future of Bitcoin, its growth potential, and the hope that it can become a widespread electronic currency and a peer-to-peer payment system without intermediaries.
