I always found it interesting to read the initial announcement and follow up emails on the Cryptography Mailing List by Satoshi in 2009. Hal Finney responds re

I always found it interesting to read the initial announcement and follow up emails on the Cryptography Mailing List by Satoshi in 2009. Hal Finney responds relatively quickly to Satoshi’s email, whilst the rest of the mailing list is embroiled in a hash algorithm discussion (TLS/MD5/SHA1/SHA256). Finney goes into some detail suggesting to me that he already knew beforehand what Bitcoin was about and how it could work and change the world. Of course parts of Bitcoin were based on his RPOW paper as well as building on much of the developments in digital cash up to then. Much of the feedback was negative (without it seems testing it) and based on the concept of digital cash in general and POW. Ironically it was also pointed out by another member that Bitcoin’s proof of work would require a lot of energy and have negative effects on the environment if successful. But most of the discussion and pro-side was promoted by both Finney and Satoshi. It almost seems “sock-puppet-esque”, or at a minimum Finney was already invested in the idea. https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2009-January.txt https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2009-January...