interview

Ray Dillinger interview — early Bitcoin code reviewer recalls Satoshi's design choices

Comprehensive interview with Ray Dillinger by Tim Swanson, marking the 10th anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper. Dillinger reveals technical details of his code review, including the famous floating-point discovery and Satoshi's reasoning for using double-precision floats.

Michel Bauwens reflects on Satoshi, Bitcoin, and the path not taken

In an April 2025 interview, P2P Foundation founder Michel Bauwens recalled that Satoshi emailed him several times, offered him a few bitcoins, and explained why he was publishing the white paper on the P2P Foundation site. Bauwens also gave a mature retrospective on Bitcoin: he remained skeptical of its energy costs, but saw it as the first globally scalable, socially sovereign currency not issued by a firm or state.