Bitcoin History

The History of Bitcoin

• 1,000 BTC Private Key Challenge
• A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
• Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree
• Bitcoin Holiday Calendar
• Buttcoin Subreddit Opportunity Cost Tracker
• cryptoanarchy.wiki
• Complete History of Consensus Forks
• An Examination of 2008 Draft Bitcoin Code
• Historical Literature (work that preceded Bitcoin)
• History of Narratives
• History from Cypherpunks to JP Morgan
• History of Development
• History Timeline 2
• History Timeline 3 (prehistory)
• History Timeline 4 (epic visuals)
• Knots Lies
• Meme Archive
• Parity Over Time
• Past, Present, Future (in-depth article)
• Premature Deaths
• Premature Obituaries
• The Rise of the Cypherpunks
• Timechain Calendar
• WORDS (archive of important posts)

Logs & Transcripts

• Bitcoin Core Dev IRC Logs (AJ Towns)
• Bitcoin Core Dev IRC Logs (Chaincode)
• Dev IRC Logs (gnusha)
• IRC Meeting Summaries (2015 - 2018)
• IRC Meetings (2020 - Present)
• Transcripts
• Transcripts (Brian Bishop)
• Transcripts (Stephen Chow)

Historic Wallet Failures

Security failures, hacks, and CVEs:

• Coldcard Entropy Failure
• BitBox Dixence Security Update
• Jade ESP32 Critical Vulnerability (CVE-2025-27840)
• Jade Security Disclosure
• Electrum JSONRPC Local Web Attack (CVE-2018-1000022)
• Milk Sad: Libbitcoin Explorer Weak Entropy (CVE-2023-39910)
• Trust Wallet Browser Extension Entropy Failure (CVE-2023-31290)
• Ill Bloom CryptoJS Weak RNG Wallet Generation (CVE-2026-71851)
• Ledger Connect Kit Supply Chain Exploit
• Ledger Bitcoin Derivative App Isolation Bypass
• Trezor and KeepKey Physical Seed Extraction / Kraken Trezor Hardware Wallet Flaw
• Trezor BIP-39 Mnemonic Processing Side Channel (CVE-2025-69893)
• OneKey Physical MITM Seed Extraction (CVE-2023-25758)
• Randstorm Early BitcoinJS Browser Wallet RNG Failure

Wallet seller privacy and data leaks:

• Ledger July 2020 E-commerce and Marketing Data Breach
• Ledger Shopify Data Theft Update
• Ledger Global-e Customer Data Exposure
• Trezor Mailchimp Data Breach / Mailchimp March 2022 Security Incident
• Trezor Support Portal Data Exposure
• Trezor ShipMonk Customer Data Exposure
• KeepKey Email and Vendor Access Breach

Satoshi Nakamoto

• Complete Writings of Satoshi Nakamoto
• Original Announcement Email Thread
• Satoshi Emails with Martti Malmi
• Satoshi Emails with Mike Hearn
• Satoshi's Mined Blocks
• Satoshi's Posts
• SatoshiTimeline.com - A visual chronological map of Satoshi's activity

Security Incidents

• Comprehensive List of Hacks
• Documented Physical Attacks
• Exchange Graveyard
• Timeline of Exchange Hacks
• Timeline of Hardware Wallet Hacks

Books

• American Kingpin (Silk Road)
• The Blocksize War
• The Book of Satoshi
• Digital Gold
• The Genesis Book (prehistory)
• Kicking the Hornet's Nest
• Silk Road Takedown

Scaling Debate

• What is the Block Size Limit?
• Early History of Scaling Debate
• Capacity Increases (Gregory Maxwell)
• The Long Road to SegWit
• Could SPV Support a Billion Users?
• Jameson Lopp vs Roger Ver Scaling Debate
• Hundreds of links to discussions