Scrypt · Satoshi’s Study
What is Satoshi’s Study?
Satoshi’s Study is a shelf of digital books published by Scrypt. Each edition takes an old or difficult text, sets the original language facing the English where the source allows, adds a table of contents and a foreword, and carries hand-written notes in the margin. Where no good English exists, the house translates from the source language itself.
Editions are ePub files, delivered by email. The Study publishes five a month, and you can read it by the month or take the whole shelf for the year.
Releases 31 October 2026
The first five editions
Fragments — Heraclitus
All 136 fragments in the Diels–Kranz order, newly translated from the Greek by the house, Greek and English facing.
Dæmonologie — King James VI and I, 1597
All three books and the Preface, in the spelling of the 1597 printing.
The Kybalion — Three Initiates, 1908
The fifteen chapters of the Hermetic text, with notes in the margin that argue with it.
The Prophecies, Century I — Nostradamus
All hundred quatrains with the English of the 1672 translator and his own annotations beneath each.
Roussat — Richard Roussat, Lyon 1550
The Livre de l’estat et mutation des temps, set from the 1559 printing, newly translated into English by the house — the source of the planetary ages Nostradamus drew on.
Ways to read it
What it costs
Satoshi's Study — Monthly
$9.99 a month
Two Satoshi's Study editions a month, drawn blind and never repeated, plus that month's Hall of Doors volume. ePub, delivered by email. Cancel any time before your next renewal.
Satoshi's Study — Monthly on the shop →The Founding Pass
$99 a year
A year inside Scrypt: every Satoshi's Study edition and every Hall of Doors volume for the year, first shot at the puzzles outside the prize Sprints, the original fiction first, and your name in the founding edition. One price, no tiers. Renews yearly; cancel any time before renewal.
The Founding Pass on the shop →Sold by Scrypt LLC.
Plainly
Questions people ask
- What format are the editions?
- ePub, a digital book that opens in Apple Books, Kindle apps that accept ePub, Kobo and most readers.
- How do the books reach me?
- By email, to the address on your order.
- When do the first books arrive?
- The first five editions release on 31 October 2026. Members who joined before then receive their first books on release night.
- What is the difference between Monthly and the Founding Pass?
- Monthly sends two editions a month, drawn blind and never repeated, plus that month’s Hall of Doors volume. The Founding Pass is every edition and every volume for the year, with the extras listed on the shop page.
- Can I cancel?
- Yes. Cancel any time before your next renewal date.
- Who makes it?
- Scrypt LLC. The translations from Greek, French and other source languages are the house’s own. See About Scrypt.
Scrypt
Welcome to the Almachian Moment and an Economy of Clever.
Scrypt is a house of ciphers and fiction. We publish cipher puzzles and connected fiction, and sell the books and objects that grow out of them. Run by Scrypt LLC.
- The Oracle
A cipher door opens nightly. Solving one is free and earns a forty-eight hour head start in the Sprint. - The Sprint
A monthly cipher race with a fixed cash purse. Free to enter, 18+, anywhere in the world. Run by Scrypt LLC. - The Making of Madrigal
A serialized audio course. A new lesson every Friday at noon Eastern, on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music. - Satoshi’s Study
Digital editions of old and hard texts, set with the original facing the English and hand-written notes in the margin. - The shop
The Study membership, the Founding Pass and the Hall of Doors volumes, each with its price. - About and FAQ
Who is behind it, how the Sprint is judged, and how to reach us.
Not the Scrypt key-derivation algorithm and not cryptocurrency mining. No relation.