I was not aware of this. I'll start researching the 2007 cypherpunks articles and such. Do you think you could post the source regarding the relation between Satoshi and Cypherpunks?
The Cypherpunks are/were an ethic more than a group, but there was a core of coders that brought the ethic to life. You can browse through the listserv archives going back to 1993 here:
http://marc.info/?l=cypherpunksThe first Bitcoin transaction was to Hal Finney, cypherpunk extraordinaire:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0;topicseen