In this reply, 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:
Satoshi Nakamoto (email to Dustin Trammell, January 12, 2009, 6:52:45 PM UTC)the 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 (the monetary design entry documents the underlying 100-confirmation coinbase-maturity rule).
Satoshi recommended that Trammell upgrade to version 0.1.3, noting:
Satoshi NakamotoThis version has really stabilized things.
In his announcement of the release to the bitcoin-list, Satoshi wrote that 0.1.3 “fixed a problem where your node’s communications could go dead after a while,” and that the network was “running much more smoothly now with this version.”
