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Nicholas Bohm to Satoshi: "Fine, I'll give it a try" (February 3, 2009)

Nicholas Bohm February 3, 2009 22:44 UTC
Quote from: Satoshi Nakamoto on February 03, 2009, 10:29:00 PM UTC
Quote from: Nicholas Bohm on February 03, 2009, 7:14:00 PM UTC

No, I’m sure that isn’t what I did.

Quote from: Satoshi Nakamoto on February 03, 2009, 10:29:00 PM UTC

Do you remember ever entering ”!Me” or my name into the program at any time?

No, I’m sure I didn’t.

Quote from: Satoshi Nakamoto on February 03, 2009, 10:29:00 PM UTC
Quote from: Satoshi Nakamoto on February 03, 2009, 4:42:00 PM UTC

BTW, did you figure out that you could doubleclick on a transaction to open a details window?

Quote from: Satoshi Nakamoto on February 03, 2009, 10:29:00 PM UTC

No, a nice touch, especially if in due course the details become context-sensitive. I did try right-clicking, to see if that would get me a chance to delete the failed items, which I find mildly irritating.

Quote from: Satoshi Nakamoto on February 03, 2009, 10:29:00 PM UTC

Despite the similarities to an e-mail program, it’s not obvious to doubleclick on transactions. There’s no critical info in there so it’s fine for now. I hadn’t thought of the context menu, I’ll plan to use that in the future.

Perhaps we should try a payment by me to you, if you would let me have an address. I would be interested to see how it works if the payment is not bc50 or a multiple, for example.

Quote from: Satoshi Nakamoto on February 03, 2009, 10:29:00 PM UTC

Sure, it’s 1GtkM4wviwohP192tec9g83hd9X5qtbk9j

I’ll send back +0.01 as a confirmation.

Fine, I’ll give it a try.

Quote from: Satoshi Nakamoto on February 03, 2009, 10:29:00 PM UTC

It looks just the same with any amount. If you want to see more details of what’s going on internally, run it as bitcoin -debug and it’ll show a debug print with the transaction details. It basically selects the closest combination of coins to the amount and writes a transaction with the change going back to yourself.

I uploaded bc015a.rar with the changes we’ve been discussing to: http://www.upload.ae/file/14702/bc015a-rar.html

I’m going to release 0.1.5 soon.

I’ll look out for it.

Regards,

Nicholas

Original external source

https://eth.loan/pdfs/20090203-Re_All%27s%20well-151710.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.