Cypherpunk legends Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, and Ralph C Merkle revolutionized the field of cryptography in the 1970s by introducing the concept of public-key cryptography, The bedrock of Bitcoin today. 
One of the complications of being free is that your tolerance for other people and their bullshit drops to zero.
I got this unopened in it's original packaging today,
1st edition 2005 Print of
"Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security"
This was likely the book that inspired Satoshi's understanding of Timestamp Servers and Bitcoin...
more to come on that eventually.
Make War Unaffordable
Hello Beautiful, it's nice to find you
Fun fact, "Block Chain" was coined by Hal Finney in a response to Satoshi on the Cryptography Mailing List. Satoshi liked the term so much, he modified the code notes of the Bitcoin v0.1 client, swapping all mentions of "Timechain" for "Block Chain" (except for one Timechain comment).
Bad take
Satoshi was a revolutionary first and a coder second.
Coming to a dystopia 
near you !
There's reasonable and unreasonable positions on
Both sides
of the spam debate-discourse.
There's more incongruence in the pro-spam rhetoric.
There's more slander of characters in the anti-spam camp.
But a lot of that is well earned.
Some of it isn't.
I don’t think this approach is helpful, but then again, you do yell at the clouds
KEYLESS IS RETARDED
The quantum emergency scenario would also be a good narrative to consider for covenant advocates
