In a follow-up the next day, Satoshi provided debugging information:
Satoshi NakamotoI’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 snapshot — Trammell’s node as the sole peer Satoshi’s own node could still reach — is itself the evidence his biography cites for his standing as one of the network’s most consistent early operators.
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.
This exchange stayed private until COPA v. Wright trial evidence revealed the full correspondence in 2024.
