Re: No connections — connected to a single peer

In a follow-up the next day, Satoshi provided debugging information:

I’m currently connected to 70.113.114.209 since yesterday.

He noted that if Bohm wasn’t connected to that IP, then the problem was on Bohm’s end — he couldn’t make outgoing connections either.

The IP address 70.113.114.209 was later identified by researchers (documented in a Decashed analysis) as likely belonging to Dustin Trammell, who was based in the Round Rock/Austin, Texas area. This matches Trammell’s known reputation as one of the most consistent early Bitcoin node operators of the period. Trammell later gave his own account of the network’s earliest days: in a 2021 interview he described possibly being the second node to ever join, after connecting and seeing only one other peer for hours — see Trammell’s 2021 testimony about possibly being Bitcoin’s second node for that account.

The exchange is an operational snapshot of the Bitcoin network in July 2009: Satoshi’s own node was connected to just a single other peer — one of the few remaining active nodes on the entire network.