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Satoshi to Nicholas Bohm: "I'm currently connected to 70.113.114.209" (July 20, 2009)

Satoshi Nakamoto July 20, 2009 15:05 UTC

I guess something must be preventing you from receiving incoming connections. Mine has been trying to connect to your IP without success. I’m currently connected to 70.113.114.209 since yesterday. If you’re not at least connected to that one, then you can’t connect out either.

Satoshi

Quote from: Nicholas Bohm on July 19, 2009, 9:23:00 AM 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.

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.

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.

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

OK

Regards,

Nicholas

Original external source

https://eth.loan/pdfs/20090720-Re_Bitcoin-235816.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.