After being entered in official court records this week, the full email correspondence between Hashcash creator Adam Back and Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto is now available to the public.
The five emails that follow detail the entire conversation between Nakamoto, the person cited by Back in the Bitcoin whitepaper and Nakamoto. The emails show the two cryptography giants for the first discussion of the work.
Back has spoken about the emails in the past, revealing some of the details, including how he didn’t read the whitepaper at first. However, this is the first time the entire text has been released.
Adam Back, the CEO of Blockstream and a prominent figure in the crypto-world, was long suspected to be involved in the invention of Bitcoin. These emails, however, will likely dispel any such suspicions.
The correspondence between Satoshi and Back was professional and polite. Satoshi sought to highlight the unique contributions that Satoshi made to Back’s previous work. work.
Back invented Hashcash in the 1990s as a way to slow down email spam. It required a computer processor to show that it performed calculations before sending the message. This system is the basis for Bitcoin mining, where a network of computers competes to solve cryptographic problems in exchange for bitcoins. workRelease new bitcoins to the economy.
It’s clear that Satoshi wanted to stay in touch with Back and sent him an email in January 2009 about the release of Bitcoin software.
These emails, which were published this week, have reignited the debate about the identity of Satoshi. This coincides with the publication of other emails by Satoshi’s early collaborators.
These emails are an interesting piece of history but they don’t shed much light on Bitcoins mysteries.
EMAIL #1 Satoshi reaches Adam back
EMAIL #2 – Adam points Satoshi at Wei Dei work
EMAIL # 3: Satoshi’s unique contributions to Bitcoin
EMAIL # 4: Adam hasn’t yet read the white paper
EMAIL #5 – Satoshi informs Adam about Bitcoin’s release
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Source: bitcoinmagazine.com
