Quote from: hugeblack on February 04, 2018, 09:36:46 AM

Quote from: pbleak on February 02, 2018, 01:15:04 PM

Hi all,

I'm just trying to get some historical context of big name developers from 2009, those who would have been in touch with Satoshi.

I know we have Gavin, Mike, maybe Jeff, I assume there are names now lost to time but people here may remember?

If you use Google, you will find information everyone knows, but I will give you a little trick that you can get better information.
Use bitcointalk ID and google.
From bitcointalk URL: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u= Edit the user's ID sequentially and use Google to get information
This is your List:
1. Admin: Demo Account.
2. Unknown account: Demo Account.
3. satoshi: Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the unknown person or people who designed bitcoin and created its original reference implementation.[1]
4. sirius: Martti Malmi, was the second Bitcoin developer after Satoshi [2]
5. Unknown account: Demo Account "Maybe it's made by "sirius" ".
6. nandnor: You will get new information if you search well.
7-9: Demo Accounts.
10. Xunie: Unkown devolper.
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13. SmokeTooMuch: the first German Bitcoiner

Very interesting, am surprised I never discovered this little forum hack myself! I have entertained some ideas (far, far behind on the backburner) of trying to compile a comprehensive list of developers - not only those that contributed directly on github but also those whose early discussions and efforts would have at least made some sort of important contribution. Amir Taaki, for example, I often read about and he's always noted as an "early Bitcoin developer" but I don't see any of his contributions. Then we've got very old projects like Skyledger that claims to have been built by "original Bitcoin developers" but none of their names come up on Github. They do share the same radical outlooks and demeanour - quite unlike the devs active here and on github who I find are very collected, very logical, fastidious (I hope I don't presume).

Posterity is important to me, for some context. But I know a lot of people would be against this sort thing, judging from responses I've seen last year when some new Satoshi emails were unearthed for the first time. Understandable from a privacy point of view.