Nicholas Bohm, a retired commercial solicitor from a major City of London firm and an e-commerce policy adviser for Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK), had been running Bitcoin since its earliest days. He was one of the few early adopters who engaged directly with Satoshi via private email.
In this email, Bohm reported that after installing a new router, his Bitcoin client could no longer establish connections to the network.
[The specific text of this email was entered as exhibit evidence in the COPA v. Craig Wright trial but has not been published in full. Bohm’s witness statement (C/10/1) included his private email correspondence with Satoshi.]
Bohm had previously reported bugs to Satoshi via the bitcoin-list mailing list in January 2009, which led to fixes included in Bitcoin v0.1.5. Satoshi acknowledged Bohm by name in the v0.1.5 release notes: “includes the fix for the problem Nicholas had.”
[Source: COPA v. Craig Wright trial evidence. Bohm’s witness statement was filed as {C/10/1}. Justice Mellor noted at paragraph 271.9 that Mr. Bohm “sadly died just before the Trial commenced.”]