Approximately six weeks after the port forwarding fix, Bohm reported a new connectivity failure:
Bitcoin has failed to establish any connections for the last day or so, despite restarts.
Bohm noted he had been maintaining 3-5 node connections prior to July 15th — a data point on the size of the active Bitcoin network in mid-2009. The fact that even a connected node with proper port forwarding could lose all peers suggests the network was extremely small at this time.
This exchange stayed private until COPA v. Wright trial evidence revealed the full correspondence in 2024.
