Research · Archive · Preserve
Project B59 preserves the histories of gaming, cryptography, digital culture, and the early internet.
A classified, hash-sealed reading room. Every record has an accession number, a class, and a SHA-256 vault seal.
Reading room · CRT and stacks
Timeline to Bitcoin
Cryptography, cypherpunks, digital-cash experiments, policy battles, early Bitcoin records, and the people around them.
Enter the timeline →Arcades, PCs, consoles, Sierra, Atari, virtual worlds, digital economies, developers, and game preservation.
Enter gaming history →Explore by Thread
Shortcut into the Vault
Hover a signal to identify it. Click to open the thread or collection.
Mailing lists, privacy tools, digital cash, and network freedom.
enter thread → Cypherpunks1992+ signal acquiredExtropians · 1988+Radical futures, self-transformation, cryptography, and digital markets.
enter thread → Extropians1988+ signal acquiredDigital Cash · 1982–2008Ecash, b-money, bit gold, hashcash, RPOW, and electronic money experiments.
enter thread → Digital Cash1982-2008 signal acquiredCrypto Wars · 1991–2000Encryption policy, export controls, Clipper, ITAR, and civil-liberties battles.
enter thread → Crypto Wars1991-2000 signal acquiredGaming History · 1962+Games, companies, virtual worlds, digital economies, and preservation.
open collection → Gaming History1962+ signal acquiredBitcoin · 2008–2009The whitepaper, launch, early discussion, genesis block, and first correspondence.
enter thread → Bitcoin2008-2009- What
- 259 records across the Vault, hash-verified and hosted in full.
- Why
- The mailing lists and mirrors they live on now could go dark any day, so we keep our own copies, connected.
- How
- Search above, browse the Timeline to Bitcoin, or open a collection below. Verify a seal on any record.
Featured Collections
More ways into the archive
Buckazoids
The fictional currency from its 1986 introduction through the Space Quest IV coin display, 59 / 2,009 evidence, and the modern research trail.
Sierra On-Line
Mystery House, Space Quest, Buckazoids, Sierra publications, developer interviews, and SierraWeb research.
The Extropian Vault
The Extropy lists and records connecting transhumanism, cryptography, digital markets, and early internet culture.
The Crypto Wars
Primary sources from the fights over encryption, export controls, Clipper, ITAR, and the right to publish cryptographic code.
Bitcoin
The whitepaper, first announcement, early discussion, genesis block, v0.1 release, and surviving early correspondence.
People
The researchers, programmers, writers, and builders represented by the Vault’s own records and primary sources.
