Dustin Trammell to Satoshi: first email (January 11, 2009)

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 03:27 +0800, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote:

Announcing the first release of Bitcoin, a new electronic cash system that uses a peer-to-peer network to prevent double-spending. It’s completely decentralized with no server or central authority.

I’m currently reading through your paper. At the timestamp server section you mention newspapers and usenet, so I thought you might be interested in this if you have not seen it already:

http://www.publictimestamp.org/

By the way, I’m also currently running the alpha code on one of my workstations. So far it has two “Generated” messages, however the “Credit” field for those is 0.00 and the balance hasn’t changed. Is this due to the age/maturity requirement for a coin to be valid?

Cheers,

— Dustin D. Trammell dtrammell@dustintrammell.com http://www.dustintrammell.com