When Satoshi Nakamoto wrote of #Bitcoin:

"It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on"

WHO WAS HE WRITING TO?

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"The real trick will be to get people to actually value the BitCoins so that they become currency," the Texan cryptography researcher had written to Satoshi. 1/

In 2013, Israeli researchers thought they'd linked recent transactions to an address owned by Satoshi, because it had been active in the very first week after the launch of Bitcoin.

But it wasn't Satoshi's. 2/

The person running Bitcoin that first week of January 2009, right after Satoshi and Hal Finney, was Dustin Trammell. 3/

Trammell, known as I)ruid (“druid”), had followed the attempts of earlier online currencies with much interest, even writing at length about the deficiencies of his favorite project, the Liberty Dollar, in 2008: 4/