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Satoshi Nakamoto's earliest known email. He contacts Adam Back to verify the correct citation for the Hashcash paper and shares a pre-release draft titled 'Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party' (ecash.pdf).
Internet expert John Levine dismisses Bitcoin's security assumption, arguing that botnet operators routinely control zombie farms of 100,000+ machines and that hashcash failed for the same reason — the bad guys have vastly more computational firepower than the good guys.
Adam Back reflects on his August 2008 email exchange with Satoshi Nakamoto, his regret at not reading the Bitcoin whitepaper carefully, and his testimony during the COPA v. Wright trial where the complete email chain was made public.