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Satoshi to Nicholas Bohm: "There may just not be anybody else running it right now" (July 19, 2009)

Satoshi Nakamoto July 19, 2009 03:07 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.

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

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

Satoshi

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-231340.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.