Between Satoshi Nakamoto And Hal Finney, Researchers Publish The Never Before Seen Emails. 

What Is The Relationship Between Nakamoto And Finney?

Having been made public is just recently three previously unpublished emails from Bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi Nakamoto. The correspondence between Satoshi and the early bitcoin developer Hal Finney is revealed in the emails. Stemming from November 2008 and January 2009 the very month Bitcoin was launched were communications between Nakamoto and Finney. 

In an editorial written by Michael Kaplikov, a professor at Pace University on November 27, were three emails that have never been seen before were made public. The emails were derived from the New York Times contributor Nathaniel Popper according to Kaplikov. As Hal Finney’s wife Fran Finney gave Popper the emails at this time, the NYT journalist also wrote the book Digital Gold. After confirming that the emails were indeed legitimate and stemmed from the now-deceased Hal Finney’s old computer, Kaplikov published the emails alongside his editorial. 

Dated November 19, 2008, which was nineteen days after bitcoin’s mysterious creator published the white paper was the first email. Before the email, Nakamoto shared an early version of the Bitcoin codebase with a few people including Hal Finney is what Kaplikov who has been studying the Bitcoin origin story, was saying. As Ray Dillinger and James A. Donald also received pre-release copies, the early release origin story is well known. Finney asked Satoshi about the number of nodes and scaling of the Bitcoin network in the email. 

Finney then wrote to Nakamoto that relating to the eventual size of the P2P network was some of the discussion and concern over performance. The major questions posed were, how large is it envisioned to become? Is it tens of nodes? Maybe thousands? Or millions? Do you, therefore, think that this could scale to be used for close to 100% of the world’s financial transactions for clients? With other transactions using a different payment system that perhaps is based on bitcoin, whereas would you see it as mostly being used for some core subset of transactions that have come with special requirements? 

All About The Emails 

Bitcoin’s creator allowed Finney to commit access to the Sourceforge repository as the researcher from Pace University also highlighted that soon after this particular email. Shortly after the network was launched, then another email dated January 8, 2009, Satoshi wrote to Hal: the bitcoin v0.1 release with EXE and full sourcecode is up on Sourceforge, thought you would like to know. That release notes and screenshots were uploaded to the web portal bitcoin.org as the creator also detailed. Finney replied to Nakamoto’s release email the very next day. 

On January 9, Finney said, Hi, Satoshi, for that information, thanks very much. To look at that this weekend, I should have a chance. To learn more about the code, he was looking forward.

Hal Finney took to Twitter and told his followers he was running bitcoin the very next day. After his recent correspondence with Nakamoto, it seems Finney did get a chance to look at the code. Kaplikov also discussed the email correspondence between Finney and Nakamoto that was given to the Wall Street Journal back in 2014 in addition to the three unpublished emails. 

As Kaplikov discusses discrepancies with the email’s timestamps are the reason for this. Appearing to be roughly eight hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time was as Kaplikov stresses that the January 2009 emails.

Trying to pinpoint Satoshi’s home location by leveraging all his activity and scatter charts of all timestamps, was just recently the new research from the Chain Bulletin contributor Doncho Karaivanov. 

When he/she or they created the Bitcoin project, Karaivanov’s study assumes that Satoshi Nakamoto lived in London. Nakamoto could have also resided in California on the west coast and some have asserted he lived on the eastern side of the United States as studies from the past show. Satoshi Nakamoto pulled a lot of all-nighters and crammed his work before he left the project was also assumed in a few of the studies. 

After suffering from complications from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Finney passed away on August 28, 2014. As he once said that the computer could help liberate people, bitcoiners and crypto proponents everywhere think of Finney in the highest regard. 

The Final Thoughts

Before his death, it seemed so obvious to him as he explained. One which puts power into the hands of individuals rather than governments and corporations, here they are faced with the problems of loss of privacy, creeping computerisations, massive databases, more centralisation, and David Chaum thereafter offers a completely different direction in which to go in. Rather than to control them, the computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people. 

Giving some new insight into the early relationship between Nakamoto and Finney are the recently published emails that are interesting.

Thereby it is clear that he was showing excitement about this project and then specifically made the time available to look at bitcoin right away.

The uncertainty of the investor’s whereabouts during the cryptocurrency’s creation period is the email timestamps simply adding more to the Satoshi Nakamoto identity mystery.