Satoshi Nakamoto Institute

The Satoshi Nakamoto Institute (SNI) preserves and publishes foundational Bitcoin material. It hosts an archive of Satoshi's public writings, including emails and forum posts. SNI has a large library of essays and source material, curated collections, podcasts, and original writing that help readers study Bitcoin's history, economics, and technical roots.

Bitcoin's history belongs in the public record, preserved with the rigour and permanence that primary sources demand. SNI has become one of the foremost institutions dedicated to building and maintaining that corpus.

Why fund it?

Researchers, journalists, serious students, builders, and curious newcomers of Bitcoin need historical context and durable references they can return to years later, not scattered posts that vanish or shift without notice. A well-maintained library is what allows SNI to keep building that record, making it more searchable, more durable, and more useful to the wider ecosystem over time.

OpenSats supported SNI through the OpenSats Education Initiative. That support helps preserve important source material and fund the ongoing work of publishing, maintenance, and archival improvement.

What's next?

The Satoshi Nakamoto Institute has long been the closest thing Bitcoin has to a historical library. But its underlying system was built like a website, and not an archive. This means content is loosely organized, and there is no standard way to bring in bulk material like early mailing lists, forum threads, IRC logs, and other primary-source collections at scale.

Archive v2 rebuilds that foundation using the same preservation standards that govern the Library of Congress and major research libraries worldwide, so that Bitcoin's intellectual history can be brought in and properly catalogued, described, and kept intact at scale.

Alongside that archival work, SNI continues to publish new material, expand translations, improve the website, and maintain a public library of essential Bitcoin texts.