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  • The Book of Satoshi : The Collected Writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto by Phil Champagne
  • About the Cover Picture
  • Acknowledgements
  • Who This Book is Intended For
  • Foreword
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. How and Why Bitcoin Works
  • 3. The First Post on Crypto Mailing List
  • 4. Scalability Concerns
  • 5. The 51% Attack
  • 6. About Centrally Controlled Networks Versus Peer-to-Peer Networks
  • 7. Satoshi on the Initial Inflation Rate of 35%
  • 8. About Transactions
  • 9. On the Orphan Blocks
  • 10. About Synchronization of Transactions
  • 11. Satoshi Discusses Transaction Fees
  • 12. On Confirmation and Block Time
  • 13. The Byzantine General's Problem
  • 14. On Block Time, an Automated Test, and the Libertarian Viewpoint
  • 15. More on Double Spend, Proof-of-Work and Transaction Fees
  • 16. On Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Denial of Service Attacks, and Confirmation
  • 17. More in the Transaction Pool, Networking Broadcast, and Coding Details
  • 18. First Release of Bitcoin
  • 19. On the Purpose For Which Bitcoin Could Be Used First
  • 20. "Proof-of-Work" Tokens and Spammers
  • 21. Bitcoin Announced on P2P Foundation
  • 22. On Decentralization as Key to Success
  • 23. On the Subject of Money Supply
  • 24. Release of Bitcoin Vo.1.3
  • 25. On Timestamping Documents
  • 26. Bitcointalk Forum Welcome Message
  • 27. On Bitcoin Maturation
  • 28. How Anonymous Are Bitcoins?
  • 29. A Few Questions Answered By Satoshi
  • 30. On "Natural Deflation"
  • 31. Bitcoin Version 0.2 is Here!
  • 32. Recommendation on Ways to Do a Payment for An Order
  • 33. On the Proof-of-Work Difficulty
  • 34. On the Bitcoin Limit and Profitability of Nodes
  • 35. On the Possibility of Bitcoin Address Collisions
  • 36. QR Code
  • 37. Bitcoin Icon/Logo
  • 38. GPL License Versus MIT License
  • 39. On Money Transfer Regulations
  • 40. On the Possibility of a Cryptographic Weakness
  • 41. On a Variety of Transaction Types
  • 42. First Bitcoin Faucet
  • 43. Bitcoin 0.3 Released!
  • 44. On The Segmentation or "Internet Kill Switch"
  • 45. On Cornering the Market
  • 46. On Scalability and Lightweight Clients
  • 47. On Fast Transaction Problems
  • 48. Wikipedia Article Entry on Bitcoin
  • 49. On the Possibility of Stealing Coins
  • 50. Major Flaw Discovered
  • 51. On Flood Attack Prevention
  • 52. Drainage of Bitcoin Faucet
  • 53. Transaction to IP Address Rather Than Bitcoin Address
  • 54. On Escrow and Multi-Signature Transactions
  • 55. On Bitcoin Mining as a Waste of Resources
  • 56. On an Alternate Type of Block Chain with Just Hash Records
  • 57. On the Higher Cost of Mining
  • 58. On the Development of an Alert System
  • 59. On the Definition of Money and Bitcoin
  • 60. On the Requirement of a Transaction Fee
  • 61. On Sites with CAPTCHA and Paypal Requirements
  • 62. On Short Messages in the Block Chain
  • 63. On Handling a Transaction Spam Flood Attack
  • 64. On Pool Mining Technicalities
  • 65. On WikiLeaks Using Bitcoin
  • 66. On a Distributed Domain Name Server
  • 67. On a PC World Article on Bitcoin and WikiLeaks Kicking the Hornet's Nest
  • 68. Satoshi's Last Forum Post: Release of Bitcoin 0.3-19
  • 69. Emails to Dustin Trammell
  • 70. Last Private Correspondence
  • 71. Bitcoin and Me (Hal Finney)
  • 72. Conclusion
  • Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
  • Terms & Definitions
  • Index
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70. Last Private Correspondence

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Last PrivateCorrespondence

ALLEGEDLY, Gavin Andresen is the last person to have had a private exchange with Satoshi Nakamoto. It took place four bit- months after his final, December 2010 forum post on cointalk.org. Gavin Andresen had a few private email exchanges with Satoshi after his retreat from public life. However, Gavin has decided that only the very last email from Satoshi will be shared publicly.

Email from Satoshi

Gavin Andresen, April 26, 2011

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011, Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx com>wrote:

I wish you wouldn’t keep talking about me as a mysterious shadowy figure, the press just turns that into a pirate currency angle. Maybe instead make it about the open source project and give more credit to your dev contributors; it helps motivate them.

You must’ve read the Forbes article . . . yeah, I’m not happy with the ‘wacky pirate money’ tone, either.

More credit for the rest of the contributors is a very good idea.

On a completely different subject: I did something that I hope turns out to be smart, but might be stupid.

I was contacted by they’re a US-govtfunded ‘strategic investment’ company, and part of what they do is holding an annual conference on emerging technologies for US intelligence agencies. This year the theme is “Mobility of Money”.

They asked if I’d be willing to talk about Bitcoin, and I committed to giving a 50-minute presentation and participating in a panel discussion.

I hope that by talking directly to “them” and, more importantly, listening to their questions/concerns, they will think of Bitcoin the way I do-as a just-plain-better, more efficient,less-subject-to-political-whims money. Not as an all-powerful black-market tool that will be used by anarchists to overthrow The System.

It might be really stupid if it just raises Bitcoin’s visibility on their radar, but I think it is way too late for that; Bitcoin is already on their radar.

I plan on posting about this on the forums soon, because“Gavin secretly visits the CIA” would spin all sorts of conspiracy theories. “Gavin openly visits the CIA” will create enough conspiracy theories as it is.

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