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Dear bitcoiners,

The Czech novelist Milan Kundera wrote, “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

Bitcoin is not just software. It’s an idea built on top of many other ideas, from Austrian economics to cryptography to the cypherpunk movement to free software to political philosophy. When someone studies bitcoin seriously, they discover this whole web of thought underneath it. But that web is fragile. Links rot. Documents disappear. Context gets lost. The people who understand why bitcoin was built the way it was won’t be around forever.

This is precisely why institutions like the Library of Congress exist: not just to store documents, but to preserve intellectual heritage so that future generations can access it, learn from it, build on it.

The Satoshi Nakamoto Institute is building the equivalent for bitcoin: a comprehensive, freely accessible archive that places bitcoin in its full historical and intellectual context. Not just Satoshi’s writings, but the entire prehistory: the shoulders of giants that bitcoin stands on, and that we continue to build on today.

I gave a talk on this vision in October called “The Library of Bitcoin”:

...read more at news.nakamotoinstitute.org