Gwern — Docs: Crypto↗

[pg62] [Image caption, left top: “It’s not clear if bitcoin is legal, but there is no company in control and no one to arrest.

The first time you see the Silk Road website there’s a creaking disconnect between your eyes and all the evidence they deliver, and your preconceptions up to that point.

Email interview with McCaleb on early history of his MtGox, verifying it did not trade real but online Magic cards In February 2014 12ya , the Bitcoin exchange site MtGox began collapsing due to an...

Emails in 2009 between Wei Dai and Satoshi Nakamoto discussing Bitcoin draft proposal and B-money.

[pg2] Dear Major Grosjean, I have written RAND concerning the machine description. This was handwritten and was sent to NSA late last spring, I believe, or sent to someone there.