In a follow-up the next day, Satoshi provided debugging information:
I’m currently connected to 70.113.114.209 since yesterday.
He noted that if Bohm wasn’t connected to that IP, then the problem was on Bohm’s end — he couldn’t make outgoing connections either.
The IP address 70.113.114.209 was later identified by researchers (documented in a Decashed analysis) as likely belonging to Dustin Trammell, who was based in the Round Rock/Austin, Texas area. This aligns with what is known about Trammell being one of the most consistent early Bitcoin node operators during this period.
This exchange provides a rare operational snapshot of the Bitcoin network in July 2009: Satoshi’s own node was connected to just a single other peer — one of the few remaining active nodes on the entire network.
[Source: COPA v. Craig Wright trial evidence, filed as part of Nicholas Bohm’s witness statement {C/10/1}. IP address analysis by Decashed (March 2025).]