The following email correspondence by Satoshi Nakamoto is organized by section and chronologically within sections. New readers should begin at the top and work their way down.

The Cryptography Mailing List

The following emails were made public by Satoshi himself. The originals can be viewed at the archive.

bitcoin-list Emails

The following emails were made public by Satoshi himself.

Satoshi and Mike Hearn Correspondence

Mike Hearn made his emails to Satoshi available for the public in August, 2017. They offer some additional fascinating insight into Satoshi and his vision for Bitcoin. Readers may find it profitable to first read Mike’s statement on the veracity of the emails as a “preface” to the emails themselves.

Satoshi and Gavin Andresen Correspondence

Satoshi and Hal Finney Correspondence

Misc Correspondence

Readers should be aware that most of these emails were not made public by Satoshi himself. There remains some controversy over how much we can trust them, but we’ve included them because readers might find them profitable and we’ve seen no reason to believe they are false.

Unconfirmed Correspondence

Debunked Correspondence