Satoshi Nakamoto Institute

A great tradition is returning. The Satoshi Nakamoto Institute Annual Dinner is back, and we hope you’ll join us for a memorable evening on Thursday, March 12th, 2026, in Austin, TX. Space is limited. Reserve your seat by purchasing a ticket via @Zaprite: https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_UbqxOW6SHf Full announcement: https://news.nakamotoinstitute.org/p/join-us-for-the-sni-…

HELP US BUILD THE LIBRARY OF BITCOIN Make a tax deductible donation today Dear bitcoiners, The Czech novelist Milan Kundera wrote, "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." Bitcoin is not just software. It's an idea built on top of many other ideas, from Austrian economics to cryptography to the cypherpunk movement to free software to political philosophy. When someone studies bitcoin seriously, they discover this whole web of thought underneath it. But that web is fragile. Links rot. Documents disappear. Context gets lost. The people who understand why bitcoin was built the way it was won't be around forever. This is precisely why institutions like the Library of Congress exist: not just to store documents, but to preserve intellectual heritage so that future generations can access it, learn from it, build on it. The Satoshi Nakamoto Institute is building the equivalent for bitcoin: a comprehensive, freely accessible archive that places bitcoin in its full historical and intellectual context. Not just Satoshi's writings, but the entire prehistory: the shoulders of giants that bitcoin stands on, and that we continue to build on today. I gave a talk on this vision in October called "The Library of Bitcoin": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3WNv9YXz9w This archive serves anyone seeking a serious understanding of bitcoin. Whether you're a key holder, a node runner, a miner, a policymaker, an academic researcher, or simply someone who wants to understand the ideas behind bitcoin, the Nakamoto Institute provides the information you need. But serving that mission for generations to come requires more than collecting documents. It requires building institutional-grade archival infrastructure that ensures information survives not just for years, but for decades and beyond. That means adopting the standards that libraries and archives use to maintain integrity and provenance over time. And because we're bitcoiners, we can go further: we're implementing OpenTimestamps to cryptographically prove when documents entered the archive, so that future generations can verify they're receiving the same materials we intended to pass down. We are now building this technical foundation. It's not glamorous work, but it's the work that makes everything else possible. Once the infrastructure is in place, we can expand the collection with more historical, economic, and technical material and add more translations. Anyone in the world who wants to understand bitcoin deeply will have free and open access to the information they need. Ainsworth Rand Spofford, the man who built the Library of Congress into a true national library, said it should preserve knowledge "not for one generation alone, but for all time." That's what we're working toward: generational knowledge for generational wealth. This work takes resources. If you believe bitcoin's ideas deserve to be preserved with the same care we'd give to any great intellectual tradition, I'm asking you to contribute. The Satoshi Nakamoto Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your donation is tax-deductible, and with the end of the year approaching, now is a good time to give. Visit https://nakamotoinstitute.org/donate/ today. Sincerely, @Bitstein Founder and President, Satoshi Nakamoto Institute

The Reorg, Episode 26: @Bitstein and @Pierre Rochard discuss @Bitstein's 2014 article "Everyone's a Scammer." Links below. https://youtu.be/zGZq-4oLRwY

“Speculative Attack, Season 2” by @allen and @Pierre Rochard is now available in Brazilian Portuguese thanks to Fabio Pereira. “Ataque Especulativo, Temporada 2” de @allen and @Pierre Rochard já está disponível em português do Brasil graças a Fabio Pereira. https://nakamotoinstitute.org/pt-br/mempool/ataque-especu…

The Reorg, Episode 25: @Bitstein and @Pierre Rochard discuss Daniel Krawisz's 2014 article "Hyperbitcoinization." Links below. https://youtu.be/7rl9RBcSI60

The Reorg, Episode 24: @Bitstein and @Pierre Rochard discuss Daniel Krawisz's 2014 article "Bitcoin's Shroud of Subtlety and Allure." Links below. https://youtu.be/xux7DGnhDPg

The Reorg, Episode 23: @Bitstein and @Pierre Rochard discuss Daniel Krawisz's 2014 article "Bitcoin's Rugged Individualism." Links below. https://youtu.be/fZmBzHuUjg8

The Reorg, Episode 22: @Bitstein and @Pierre Rochard discuss Daniel Krawisz's 2015 article "Who Controls Bitcoin?" Links below. https://youtu.be/QLfU2_DJ3UY

The Reorg, Episode 21: @Bitstein and @Pierre Rochard discuss @Pierre Rochard and @allen's 2024 article "Speculative Attack, Season 2." Links below. https://youtu.be/Mvt8_zu-1FQ

The Reorg, Episode 20: @Bitstein and @Pierre Rochard discuss Pierre's 2014 article "Speculative Attack." Links below. https://youtu.be/e0RLyNU6qDo

The Reorg, Episode 19: @Bitstein and @Pierre Rochard discuss Daniel Krawisz's 2015 article "Bitcoin as a Store of Value, Unit of Account, and Medium of Exchange." Links below. https://youtu.be/sqoXsbdSTs0

The Reorg, Episode 18: @Bitstein and @Pierre Rochard discuss Daniel Krawisz's 2014 article "Bitcoin is the Best Unit of Account." Links below. https://youtu.be/Twp3vz2B5YY

The Reorg, Episode 17: @Bitstein and @Pierre Rochard discuss Daniel Krawisz's 2014 article "How to Market Bitcoin." Links below. https://youtu.be/ejB5FaR3VVM

“Everyone’s a Speculator” by @Bitstein is now available in Brazilian Portuguese thanks to Fabio Pereira. “Todo Mundo É Um Especulador” de @Bitstein já está disponível em português do Brasil graças a Fabio Pereira. https://nakamotoinstitute.org/pt-br/mempool/todo-mundo-e-…

The Reorg, Episode 16: @Bitstein and @Pierre Rochard discuss Daniel Krawisz's 2014 article "Bitcoin Has No Image Problem." Links below. https://youtu.be/H7Zailg2tno

The Reorg, Episode 15: @Bitstein and @Pierre Rochard discuss Daniel Krawisz's 2014 article "I Love Bitcoin's Volatility." Links below. https://youtu.be/_kub1Cdsmo8

At @BitBlockBoom, SNI president @Bitstein explored the individual and social benefits of hodling bitcoin and the virtues that help savings reach their highest value. https://youtu.be/p0Sj1sG05VQ

The Reorg, Episode 14: @Bitstein and @Pierre Rochard discuss Daniel Krawisz's 2016 article "It's Not About the Technology, It's About the Money." Links below. https://youtu.be/G5QDdPe3HaA

The Reorg, Episode 13: @Bitstein and @Pierre Rochard discuss Daniel Krawisz's 2014 article "Appcoins Are Snake Oil." Links below. https://youtu.be/oD5MPzdN-Xo

The Reorg, Episode 12: @Bitstein and @Pierre Rochard discuss Daniel Krawisz's 2014 article "The Coming Demise of the Altcoins (And What You Can Do to Hasten It)." Links below. https://youtu.be/rIk4gKAnkWw