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Satoshi to Nicholas Bohm: how to label the address a payment was received with (February 2, 2009)

Satoshi Nakamoto February 2, 2009 18:15 UTC
Quote from: Nicholas Bohm on February 02, 2009, 11:27:00 AM UTC

No further trouble; but whereas the UI at first showed your transfer as:

35 blocks 01/02/2009 16:25   Received with: !Me
1CHE5JRfc5mr8ZtVUP7nnsS5HC4bWcXoc6 +100.00

it now (the morning after) shows:

98 blocks 01/02/2009 16:25   Received with: Satoshi Nakamoto
1CHE5JRfc5mr8ZtVUP7nnsS5HC4bWcXoc6 +100.00

Everyone promptly presses “Change…” and labels their own address with my name.

I need to figure out some way to convey that it’s showing the address you received it with, in just one or two words

Maybe: “Receiving address: ” “Incoming address: ”

Or the way e-mail programs do it: “To: ” “Recipient: ”

Which one do you think would work best, or is it just too much to overcome the predisposition to expect it to say who it’s from no matter what it’s labelled?

This would probably work best: “From: unknown, To: Your Address 1cc…” or “From: anonymous, To: Your Address 1cc…”

Satoshi

Original external source

https://eth.loan/pdfs/20090202-Re_All%27s%20well-133273.pdf
From exhibit NB1 to Nicholas Bohm's witness statement in COPA v Wright: his own export of his correspondence with Satoshi from Mozilla Thunderbird, filed in July 2023 and put online by decashed.eth in January 2025. The time is the one shown in Bohm's mail client (UK time), converted to UTC. The postal address and telephone numbers in Bohm's signature are omitted. The PDF dropped the letter pairs ti, tt, ft and fi in this email; they are restored.