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# Satoshi's Last Email

The email on the Cryptography Mailing List that announced Bitcoin publicly to the world.
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I wish you wouldn’t keep talking about me as a mysterious shadowy figure, the press just turns that into a pirate currency angle. Maybe instead make it about the open source project and give more credit to your dev contributors; it helps motivate them.
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			`# Satoshi's Last Email`

			`The email on the Cryptography Mailing List that announced Bitcoin publicly to the world.`
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			```
			`I wish you wouldn’t keep talking about me as a mysterious shadowy figure, the press just turns that into a pirate currency angle. Maybe instead make it about the open source project and give more credit to your dev contributors; it helps motivate them.`
			```