These discussions, taking place publicly on the bitcointalk.org forum, went on until December 12th, 2010. After that, Satoshi went dark.
Amongst the Bitcoin community, these posts are well known, but your average person would need hours to scour through it all and make sense of it. In this important book, Phil Champagne has gone through each post and identified the most important ones… and given the context for the time of the post as to why it is important. This creates a logical timeline of Bitcoin’s evolution straight from the keyboard of Satoshi Nakamoto and could be described as Bitcoin’s autobiography.
As I write, in June 2014, bitcoin’s future is unknowable. It could go on to change the world dramatically, freeing us from the oppression of central banks and the gargantuan governments that feed off their free money. Or, it could go down in smoke and flames due to any number of possible events.
No matter what happens from here, however, the impact of Bitcoin is knowable. Its most core concept has and will change how we think about contracts, trust, and transactions no matter what happens to Bitcoin itself. Already thousands of applications have been built off the platform, and these have expanded it outside the world of financial transactions.
Phil Champagne has put into an easy-to-read format the fomenting of one of the most important technological innovations of our time…a completely decentralized platform to perform payment transaction without the need for a trusted third party. Its importance is only surpassed by the Internet itself as an evolution in communications. Chapter 2 provides readers unfamiliar with Bitcoin a great overview of its technological and philosophical foundation and of how it operates.
Decades from now many will look back at this innovation the way we currently look back at the Internet or the Gutenberg press as being epochal moments in the history of civilization. And this collection of Satoshi’s posts and correspondences forms a logical timeline and will be one of the easiest ways for future historians to understand just how it began and evolved.
[Editor's note: To reiterate, this is a very important book and a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the mindset of the person or persons involved in creating bitcoin. And, not only that, it is incredibly interesting to see the creation of a new currency documented from the very first day! Be sure to check out the The Book of Satoshi, available now by clicking here.]
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Jeff Berwick
Anarcho-Capitalist. Libertarian. Freedom fighter against mankind’s two biggest enemies, the State and the Central Banks. Jeff Berwick is the founder of The Dollar Vigilante and host of the popular video podcast, Anarchast. Jeff is a prominent speaker at many of the world’s freedom, investment and gold conferences including his own, the world's largest anarcho-capitalist conference, Anarchapulco, as well as regularly in the media including CNBC, CNN and Fox Business.
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