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Nicholas Bohm to Satoshi: his IP address, and usually 3 to 5 connections (July 19, 2009)

Nicholas Bohm July 19, 2009 09:23 UTC
Quote from: Satoshi Nakamoto on July 19, 2009, 3:07:00 AM UTC

Did your IP address change? And if so, what’s the new address? I run a node but I can’t accept incoming connections and if your IP address changed then I would have lost contact with you.

My IP address is 217.146.110.206, and hasn’t changed for quite a time as far as I know.

Satoshi Nakamoto

There may just not be anybody else running it right now. How many connections did you usually have before?

It varied from 3 to 5 mostly.

Satoshi Nakamoto

If you keep your server running, if new users come along at least they’ll have someone to connect to, rather than get no connections and give up.

I’ll leave it running. No blocks of coins have matured since 15th July.

Satoshi Nakamoto

(btw, it’s better if you use my satoshin@gmx.com e-mail address)

OK

Regards,

Nicholas

Satoshi Nakamoto
Quote from: Nicholas Bohm on July 18, 2009, 8:59:00 AM UTC

Bitcoin has failed to establish any connections for the last day or so, despite restarts. I’m not aware of having made any changes to my system, so this is puzzling. Can you suggest what I might check?

Regards,

Nicholas

Original external source

https://eth.loan/pdfs/20090719-Re_Bitcoin-233770.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.