I read his IRC output daily for a few years and operated a trading bot on MPEx for six months. Mircea tolerated me at first and eventually hated me, even going so far as to sign a message that I was attacking his republic or something. Parts of the IRC logs are quoted on his blog, although there used to be sites where you could read the daily logs of the IRC channels; these splintered apart after his followers went their separate ways.

Honestly I think you should limit your scope, otherwise there is too much to cover and plenty of noise obscuring the information you'd want. Pick specific aspects of his life, or even specific episodes of his public involvement with Bitcoin, and focus on those.

Your detachment from the events is actually a benefit in this case; anything I write would be incredibly subjective.