This is the SECOND EDITION, which includes newly revealed emails. The first edition was published in 2014.

Have you, like the rest of the world, speculated as to the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, anonymous creator of Bitcoin?

The world’s first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin went online in 2009 and has since revolutionized our concepts of currency and money. Not supported by any government or central bank and completely electronic, Bitcoin is a virtual currency based on advanced cryptographic systems.

Like the currency he created, the identity of Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, is virtual, existing only online. The Nakamoto persona, which may represent an individual or a group, exists only in the online publications that introduced and explained Bitcoin during its earliest days. Collected here are the essential writings detailing Bitcoin’s creation.

Included are:

Satoshi Nakamoto Emails and Posts Presented in Chronological Order

Bitcoin Fundamentals Presented in Layman’s Terms

Bitcoin’s Potential and Profound Economic Implications

The Seminal Paper Which Started It All

The Book of Satoshi provides a convenient way to parse what Bitcoin’s creator wrote over the two years that constituted his “public life” before he disappeared from the Internet ... at least under the name Satoshi Nakamoto. Beginning with the seminal paper describing Bitcoin, this public life ends at about the time PC World speculated about a possible link between Bitcoin and WikiLeaks, the website that publishes leaked classified materials. Was there a connection? You be the judge.

Nakamoto’s true identity may never be known. Therefore, the writings reproduced here are probably all the world will ever hear from him concerning Bitcoin’s creation, workings, and theoretical basis. Want to learn more about Bitcoin? Go directly to the source—the writings of the creator himself, Satoshi Nakamoto!

In this 2nd edition: several new emails exchanged with Satoshi that were published after the first edition.