Mill Hill Books has released Kicking the Hornet’s Nest, which contains all of Satoshi Nakamoto’s emails, forum posts, and other entries in chronological order.
The 340-page book, according to the publisher, includes all the records of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, ever published on the Internet. The full title of the book reads: “Kicking the Hornet’s Nest: The Complete Writings, Emails, and Forum Posts of Satoshi Nakamoto, the Founder of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency”. The print edition sells for $29.
All entries are collected in chronological order “with almost no editorial comments.” Sources for the book include bitcointalk.org, nakamotoinstitute.org, letters from the metzdowd.com cryptocurrency mailing list, personal emails directed to and received from Dustin Trammel, and other personal emails as well.
There is a commentary in the “From the Editor” section explaining the reason for the book’s release. The editor writes that ten years later, those in power began to get carried away with the idea of cryptocurrency and “accept the inevitability” of this technology.
“As a child, my brother and I ran into a hornet’s nest from time to time when we played in the forest,” writes the editor. “We threw a stone at him or kicked him. It is not rational, but too tempting and too fun. And when you do something like that, you do it quickly, and then get away with your feet as quickly as possible.”
The book editor writes about several characteristic features that distinguish Satoshi Nakamoto’s letters, such as the double space at the end of a sentence. In addition, Satoshi was distinguished by politeness, clear communication, thoughtfulness. This is a person or group of people who “value privacy”. The book contains 539 Nakamoto messages from the bitcointalk.org forum and 34 known emails.
