This is super interesting because Satoshi refers to Hal. I've tried to find the text version on the internet but couldn't locate it. Do you know where it can be found, or were they private emails?
Rizzo would have got the emails from the court records. I'm not sure if the court records are on the internet yet (i.e. whether these emails can be linked directly).
The early overview that Hal gives of Bitcoin and that Satoshi quotes in the 5th email comes from a discussion on the Crtyptography mailing list, so that has been public all this time.
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