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Coindesk.com featured Adjunct Professor Michael Kaplikov's piece "Previously Unpublished Emails of Satoshi Nakamoto Present a New Puzzle"
Coindesk.com featured Adjunct Professor Michael Kaplikov's piece "Previously Unpublished Emails of Satoshi Nakamoto Present a New Puzzle"
Michael Kapilkov is an adjunct professor at Pace University in New York; since discovering Bitcoin, he has been interested in its origin story.
Newly discovered emails between Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, and the late Hal Finney deepen the mystery around the cryptocurrency’s origins.
The three emails come from Bitcoin’s earliest days, when its future was uncertain. They show how closely Satoshi collaborated with early supporters at the time of Bitcoin’s launch.
While anything written or coded by Satoshi is intrinsically valuable to the community, perhaps the most intriguing parts of these messages are neither words nor code, but something seemingly prosaic: the timestamps, which present a new riddle.
