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🔥📰 Bitcoin: Satoshi Nakamoto Emailing Satoshi Nakamoto?

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Some latest news for Bitcoin enthusiasts - as part of the ongoing London court case involving the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) and Craig Wright, a set of the earliest emails from the elusive Bitcoin founder, Satoshi Nakamoto, were released. 👥 These are emails between Satoshi and Adam Back. For context, Adam Back is the Blockstream CEO and cryptography pioneer behind Hashcash - an early system to combat denial-of-service attacks that influenced Bitcoin's proof-of-work mining. These emails provide rare direct communication between the original Bitcoin white paper author and Adam Back in Bitcoin's formative days. The emails themselves cover technical discussions around cryptography, proof-of-work systems, and digital payments. 🔍But here's where it gets interesting: Adam Back himself is the top contender for being Satoshi. I personally am convinced he is - for a lot of reasons: right place, right time, right age, correct skill set, academic type, use of Hash Cash, com...