The first coder to work alongside Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto

He earned Satoshi’s trust enough to be given admin access to the website Bitcoin.org, and most of the changes in Bitcoin’s second code release are attributed to him.

In his first email to Satoshi, in May 2009, Martti offered his services: "I would like to help with Bitcoin, if there’s something I can do," he wrote.

Satoshi quickly gave Martti practical suggestions for how he could help the project. The most important was the simplest: to leave his computer on with the Bitcoin program running. Five months after Bitcoin was launched, it was still not possible to trust that someone somewhere was running the Bitcoin program.

In the very first recorded transaction of bitcoin for USD, Martti sent NewLibertyStandard 5,050 bitcoin to use for seeding the new exchange. In return, Martti got $5.02 via PayPal.

