Satoshi to Hal Finney: Bitcoin v0.1 (January 8, 2009)

Thought you’d like to know, the Bitcoin v0.1 release with EXE and full source code is up on Sourceforge;

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/bitcoin/bitcoin-0.1.0.rar

www.bitcoin.org has release notes and screenshots.

Satoshi

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https://www.bitcoin.com/satoshi-archive/emails/hal-finney/1/
Verbatim email body preserved by Bitcoin.com's Satoshi Archive, captured by the Wayback Machine 2025-05-18. Original message body originated from files Fran Finney provided to journalist Nathaniel Popper in March 2014 and was later shared with CoinDesk for the 2020-11-26 publication.

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