The correspondence portrays a more informal, conversational Satoshi Nakamoto, but perhaps suffering from job “burnout.”
The 260 emails run 140,000 words — the length of a long novel — but this online correspondence between Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s creator, and Martti Malmi, an early developer, comprises a “trove” of primary historical information about Bitcoin’s early days.
Some of the material published by Malmi last week isn’t new. It includes fragments from Bitcoin’s “question and answer dump,” for instance, that have been seen before, so one has to tread carefully before claiming new revelations.
Still, the email exchanges, mainly between Malmi and Satoshi, dating from May 2009 to February 2011, present Bitcoin’s pseudonymous founder in, arguably, a more casual and natural light than widely seen before.
