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trove of new communications from none other than Satoshi Nakamoto. Before we get into that,

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Hello friends today. Let's dive right in. Such a cool story. A huge trove of never-before-seen emails

have shed new light on Bitcoin pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto. The emails document early correspondence between

Satoshi and Blockstream co-founder Adam Back, as well as Satoshi's earlier collaborator, Marty Malmy.

They were presented as evidence in the lawsuit between the Crypto Open Patent Alliance and

Craig Wright, who of course claims to be Satoshi. That trial remains an absolute dumpster fire,

with Wright repeatedly caught in lies and presenting fabricated evidence. The emails, however, represent the most significant release of previously

undiscovered writings from Satoshi in Bitcoin history. Back and Maumee have both said that they

kept the correspondence private up to this point to protect Satoshi's identity. However, they

each felt that proving that Wright is not Satoshi was of such paramount importance

that they were willing to risk disclosing the emails. Back's emails are rather brief,

consisting of just five pages in which the two discussed prior cryptographic papers in the

summer of 2008, several months before the Bitcoin white paper was released. Satoshi had reached out

to Back to ensure his hash-cash paper was given the proper citation

before the white paper was released. Back then told Satoshi about a number of other papers,

including one about a system called B-Money put forward by Wei Dai in 1998. Satoshi said he had

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