Found a chat log from 2011 with people joking and discussing who Satoshi Nakamoto might be, some of them where in email contact with Satoshi.

Don’t ask how I found it, I went down a deep deep rabbit hole, but I think the chat log is really interesting to look at.

Some of them are even joking about “what are going to be the wildest conspiracy theories about Satoshi Nakamoto in the future”, which is especially poignant today with all of the Craig Wright bullshit.

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Here is the forum link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110822152220/http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/2011/04/26/6

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The most interesting quote to me is:

Satoshi did suggest this morning that I (we) should try to de-emphasize the whole “mysterious founder” thing when talking publically about Bitcoin. It plays into the “bitcoin is pirate money “meme.”

This quote was made by Gavin Andresen, who was verifiably involved in Bitcoin in the extremely early days.

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There’s no real point to this post, just thought it was very cool seeing a chat log from 2011, debating the exact same things that we do in 2021 about Satoshi Nakamoto, it’s an interesting read. 🙂