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breakdown pod. Hello, friends. It has been

quite the week in Bitcoin. In fact, I am actually recording this a little bit earlier in the

week, earlier than I normally do. And so I have no idea right now if Bitcoin is at 70,000 or

50,000 or where it is. But in addition to just crazy price movements and the return of some

fairly mainstream attention, the last couple weeks saw one of the coolest and most

interesting historical drops that we've had in a very long time. I'm talking, of course,

about the set of emails from Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto that were released as part of a lawsuit

against Craig Wright. Today we're reading a piece by Daniel Kuhn from Consensus Magazine called

Five Things Satoshi Nakamoto correctly predicted about Bitcoin. Daniel writes,

correspondence between Satoshi Nakamoto and his earliest known collaborator Marty Malmy

was released as part of an ongoing lawsuit in the United Kingdom regarding the true identity of Bitcoin pseudonymous creator.

For some, the documents represent a new avenue of research, for anyone looking to finally identify who Satoshi really is.

For others, the 120 pages of emails also posted to GitHub, offer fresh insights into the character

and personality of the long-gone developer. As Bitcoin historian and former CoinDesk editor Pete Rizzo

noted, the emails largely conform to and confirm what the world already knows about Satoshi,

who between 2009 and 2011 was an active participant on message boards like Bitcoin Talk

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