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Satoshi to Nicholas Bohm: one generating process per processor (February 11, 2009)

Satoshi Nakamoto February 11, 2009 18:58 UTC
Quote from: Nicholas Bohm on February 11, 2009, 5:55:00 PM UTC

I’ve looked from time to time, and Bitcoin invariably gets exactly 50% of CPU, even when System Idle Process is getting the other 50%. I assumed this was set, and had it in mind to ask you whether the setting could be changed so that Bitcoin could be given its head (e.g. overnight).

Do you have a dual core system, such as a Core 2 Duo? Bitcoin currently only launches one process to generate coins but it could easily launch one for each processor. It’s probably about time I implemented that.

Satoshi

Original external source

https://eth.loan/pdfs/20090211-Re_Bitcoin-167726.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.