Written English corpus

This author has compiled a written English corpus of all publicly shared content confidently attributed to Nakamoto. The corpus builds on the following sources using the original texts wherever possible.

Corpus content sources

• bitcoin-list.txt: 19 posts and responses to the original Bitcoin mailing list
• bitcoin-talk.txt: 543 posts and responses to the Bitcoin Talk forum
• bitcoin-p2p-e-cash-paper.txt: 18 posts and responses to the Cryptography mailing list
• emails:
  • andresen.txt: 1 email to Gavin Andresen
  • dai.txt: 2 emails to Wei Dei from satoshi@anonymousspeech.com
  • finney.txt: 1 email to Hal Finney from satoshi@vistomail.com
  • hanec.txt: 1 email to Laszlo Hanec
  • hearn.txt: 16 emails to Mike Hearn from satoshin@gmx.com
  • malmi.txt: 149 emails to Martti Malmi from satoshin@gmx.com
  • matonis.txt: 1 email to John Matonis from satoshin@gmx.com
  • trammell.txt: 9 emails to Dustin Trammell from satoshi@vistomail.com
• p2p-foundation-list.txt: 3 posts to the P2P Foundation mailing list
• whitepaper.txt: Copy/paste from original PDF into text file
• source code comments:
  • 0.1.0-all-comments.txt: 633 comments lines from Bitcoin version 0.1.0
  • 0.1.0-readme.txt: the readme.txt file from Bitcoin version 0.1.0

Corpus details and statistics

• File: full-corpus.txt
• SHA 256 summary: e133ef4146c00033261a4103c19d5d31cb01cb0cc52bf3f2fa177cb6bbf4d943
• File size: 609.87 KB
• Character count: 624509
• Line count: 11686
• Word count: 98150
• Sentence count: 5701
• Average sentence length: 17.22 words
• Unique words: 8234
• Unique words (excluding stopwords): 8117
• Unique lemmatized words: 7552
• Vocabulary richness (unique/total): 0.0839

Most common words (excluding stopwords):

• would: 655
• pm: 472
• block: 425
• bitcoin: 408
• get: 357
• transaction: 352
• could: 336
• one: 326
• transactions: 299
• like: 281
• time: 274
• network: 262
• use: 261
• nodes: 245
• make: 237
• need: 233
• new: 231
• version: 229
• http: 223
• address: 219

Least common words (excluding stopwords):

• presented: 2
• collecting: 2
• stabilized: 2
• sweet: 2
• defence: 2
• microsecond: 2
• alluded: 2
• long-odds: 2
• thoughts: 2

Average word length: 4.90 characters