Martti Malmi's (Sirius) emails with Satoshi from 2009-2011 \ stacker news ~bitcoin

Martti Malmi's (Sirius) emails with Satoshi from 2009-2011 mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/

15.6k sats \ 13 comments \ @nout 23 Feb bitcoin

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing!

Only just started reading but bookmarked for later.

I did not feel comfortable sharing private correspondence earlier, but decided to do so for an important trial in the UK in 2024 where I was a witness. Also, a long time has passed now since the emails were sent.

I'm guessing "an important trial in the UK" refers to the current COPA vs CSW case?

74 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout OP 23 Feb

Yes, afaik Martti was testifying there.

Btw, Martti is here: https://iris.to/npub1g53mukxnjkcmr94fhryzkqutdz2ukq4ks0gvy5af25rgmwsl4ngq43drvk he's the author of Iris nostr client.

22 sats \ 0 replies \ @0fje0 23 Feb

He certainly was! I was able to dig up this little gem from his testimony at the trial:

In the proceedings he was asked to spell out my name for the court reporter, and he misspelled it as “Marrti”. I do not think this was a mistake in transcribing because my name was written correctly elsewhere in the transcript. Satoshi could spell my name! Craig Wright also said I was Norwegian but I am Finnish. I emailed Satoshi from my addresses ending in .fi. In one of the exhibited emails I even gave him my street address in Finland.

Note: The "proceedings" mentioned above refer to an earlier CSW trial, the Kleiman proceedings.

Source: First Witness Statement of Martti Malmi

74 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 25 Feb

A window into the origins of Bitcoin.

Some things that I found interesting after a quick read:

It took Satoshi about 18 months of work to get to roughly the first version of Bitcoin.
Satoshi tried to buy bitcoin dot com first, but it was not available since a professional domain speculator bought it first. I wonder how Roger Ver ended up buying the domain, or if Satoshi was referring to him here.
It appears very clear that he was doing this work by himself, and then started to contact other people, one by one through email, and by groups through email lists. Based on the emails, Bitcoin really doesn't seem to have been created by a group.
Satoshi mainly used Windows and was not great with Linux, but used MinGW as the main compiler (MinGW provides GCC to Windows, which is a Linux compiler), and only the Microsoft compiler (mentioned as VC) for debugging.

52 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 23 Feb

Craig Wright is so fucked.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @koqoo 23 Feb

legendary OG emails

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lumor 24 Feb

Satoshi:

Once it's backed with cash, that might change, but I'd probably better refrain from mentioning that in public anymore until we're closer to ready to start.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @KLT 24 Feb

Can’t WAIT to dive into these emails

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @JuanMiguel 23 Feb

Crazy that people saved emails from a decade ago

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @doofus 23 Feb

Legends

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @026180d3a3 23 Feb

Interesting timing.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 23 Feb

Satoshi, before woke-times :)

I know this sounds really retarded, but I still haven't been able to get the sourceforge login page to load, so I haven't been able to read it either. https://sourceforge.net/account/login.php

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SaToSHiWoMaN 24 Feb outlawed

stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.