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Nicholas Bohm to Satoshi: what the "blocks" figure in the status bar means (February 12, 2009)

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Nicholas Bohm February 12, 2009 17:52 UTC

The bottom of the UI shows:

Generating      4 connections    4024 blocks    164 transactions

I understand “generating”; I assume I am connected to 4 other nodes; and I know I have recorded 164 transactions (including failed generation attempts). I’m not clear what the “blocks” figure describes. It’s much smaller than the total of all the blocks shown against all my transactions.

Regards,

Nicholas

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https://eth.loan/pdfs/20090212-Bitcoin%20UI%20question-171698.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.

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