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Email addresses

According to publicly available information, Satoshi Nakamoto used a few different email addresses:

satoshin@gmx.com​

(German based free email provider)

This email appears on the original whitepaper.

satoshi@bitcoin.org​

TODO: research / was this real?

satoshi@gmx.com​

(German based free email provider)

TODO: is this really a legit email? a no 'n' version?

satoshi@anonymousspeech.com​

Used in 2008 to email people like Adam Back (<adam@cypherspace.org>) and Wei Dai (<weidai@ibiblio.org>).

satoshi@vistomail.com​

Nakamoto used this address to inform Hal Finney about the Bitcoin v0.1[^3] release.

The full email content follows:

From: Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshi@vistomail.com>
To: hal@finney.org
Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 20:54:55 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Bitcoin v0.1

Thought you’d like to know, the Bitcoin v0.1 release with EXE and full source code is up on Sourceforge;
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/bitcoin/bitcoin-0.1.0.rar

www.bitcoin.org has release notes and screenshots.

Satoshi