Everything great looks shabby in its early days. Here’s a “On this day in history” little story about bitcoin:native to share and encourage everyone:

On July 18, 2010, Satoshi Nakamoto sent an email saying he was going crazy. His original words were:
“「I'm losing my mind there are so many things that need to be done」
What was he anxious about? Oddly enough, it was the server costs.
At the time, a major U.S. tech community, Slashdot, reported on Bitcoin, and traffic suddenly surged—the servers were nearly unable to keep up.
In the technical community, someone suggested switching to a cheaper $20 server. Nakamoto said no—cheap servers weren’t reliable.
Then he emailed the then Bitcoin co-developer, Malmi, asking whether he could rally the community to donate a bit of Bitcoin for emergency coverage.
That day, one Bitcoin was about $0.08.
This email comes from a lawsuit in 2024: a group of crypto companies jointly sued a man named Craig Wright, accusing him of impersonating Satoshi Nakamoto. To prove he wasn’t the real person, Satoshi’s earliest collaborator, the Finnish programmer Malmi, published all 260-plus private emails between the two.
It’s also this lawsuit that unexpectedly revealed the “godlike” creator’s human side—still anxious, still small, and still working hard to maintain the project.
A project that worried over a $20 server bill 16 years ago, and had to rely on community donations of coins to keep running, finally has its own history.
Don’t bully a poor young person. Remember the ambition of the youth who endures hardship in the clouds—he once promised to be the very best among humankind.