In this reply to Dustin Trammell, Satoshi thanked him for the timestamp service link and discussed alternative approaches. Regarding Trammell’s question about the credit field, Satoshi explained the coin maturity mechanism:
Quote from: Satoshi Nakamoto on January 12, 2009, 6:52:45 PM UTCthe credit field stays 0.00 until it matures, then it’ll be 50.00.
Satoshi asked Trammell whether it would be clearer to leave the credit field blank until maturity instead of displaying 0.00.
Satoshi recommended that Trammell upgrade to version 0.1.3, noting:
Satoshi NakamotoThis version has really stabilized things.
Version 0.1.3 had fixed a communications bug that prevented nodes from properly broadcasting blocks to each other, which was critical for the network’s early functioning.