Entries originating from this channel. The source axis lets you trace the venues Satoshi and contemporaries used over time.
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Litecoin copied Bitcoin's code and rescaled four parameters by an identical factor of four, then its creator divested his entire holding, citing his own influence over the price.
Bitcoin's first price was a production-cost estimate. Satoshi predicted in 2010 that market price would come to dictate production cost — not the reverse. The arc from 2009 to modern models.
NewLibertyStandard proposes adopting the Thai baht currency symbol ฿ as the official Bitcoin currency symbol and BTC as the three-letter currency code — the notation that became standard.
Jeff Garzik posts the first public alert of the value-overflow incident, sharing the raw block data for #74638 with two outputs of 92,233,720,368.54277039 BTC each.
Gavin Andresen publicly announces taking on active project management for Bitcoin with Satoshi's blessing, creating the bitcoin/bitcoin GitHub staging tree and proposing a development process.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "MSVC build & SHA-256".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "BitCoin Wikipedia page DELETED!!!".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Key pool feature for safer wallet backup".
Vitalik Buterin's BitcoinTalk announcement of Ethereum on the Altcoins board, January 23, 2014. The principal Bitcoin-community-facing record of the Ethereum whitepaper publication.
Gavin Andresen announces on BitcoinTalk topic 2367 he is taking over active project management of Bitcoin with Satoshi's blessing. Same day, he creates the bitcoin/bitcoin GitHub repo.
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Quoted post by AgoraMutual in BitcoinTalk topic 17.
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Quoted post by Gavin Andresen in BitcoinTalk topic 589.
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Quoted post by Marko in BitcoinTalk topic 1291.
Context post by sirius in BitcoinTalk topic 58. before msg413.
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Context post by Cdecker in BitcoinTalk topic 65. quoted by msg571.
Context post by SheriffWoody in BitcoinTalk topic 101. before msg1134.
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Context post by dkaparis in BitcoinTalk topic 141. before msg1260.
Context post by molybdenum in BitcoinTalk topic 145. quoted by msg1256.
Context post by theymos in BitcoinTalk topic 165. quoted by msg1595.
Context post by Bitcoiner in BitcoinTalk topic 240. before msg2132.
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Context post by vishwambar in BitcoinTalk topic 318. before msg2903.
Context post by Ground Loop in BitcoinTalk topic 403. before msg3545.
Context post by The Madhatter in BitcoinTalk topic 432. before msg3769.
Context post by Gavin Andresen in BitcoinTalk topic 434. before msg3770.
Context post by lachesis in BitcoinTalk topic 528. before msg5416.
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Context post by Gavin Andresen in BitcoinTalk topic 604. before msg6273.
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Quoted post by FreeMoney in BitcoinTalk topic 1842.
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Peter Todd's first BitcoinTalk post, one minute after registering as retep — offering $2 USD (not BTC, unlike others) for a Diaspora invite. His second post was a technical reply to Satoshi.
madhatter starts a discussion: A few suggestions.
SmokeTooMuch starts a discussion: Questions about Bitcoin.
madhatter starts a discussion: 64bit support.
madhatter starts a discussion: TOR and I2P.
riX starts a discussion: Bitcoin crash when sending coins.
Sabunir starts a discussion: Questions about Addresses.
Martti Malmi (sirius) starts a discussion: Make your "we accept Bitcoin" logo.
theymos starts a discussion: What's with this odd generation?.
nphyx starts a discussion: DEB Package?.
ec starts a discussion: URI-scheme for bitcoin.
Suggester starts a discussion: The current Bitcoin economic model doesn't work.
NewLibertyStandard starts a discussion: Bitcoin Address Collisions.
fergalish starts a discussion: bitcoin auto-renice-ing.
soultcer starts a discussion: On IRC bootstrapping.
NewLibertyStandard starts a discussion: Bitcoin in Ubuntu 10.04.
HostFat starts a discussion: Website and software translations.
lachesis starts a discussion: Dealing with SHA-256 Collisions.
Gavin Andresen starts a discussion: Transactions and Scripts: DUP HASH160 ... EQUALVERIFY CHECKSIG.
Satoshi Nakamoto announces version 0.3 is almost ready and requests testing of the Mac version.
llama starts a discussion: Major Meltdown.
Xunie starts a discussion: Bitcoin clients getting k-lined from the IRC bootstrapping channel.
Satoshi Nakamoto starts a discussion: Beta?.
lachesis starts a discussion: Feature Request: Limiting Connections.
m0mchil starts a discussion: bitcoin 0.3 win64 - broken access to APPDATA if non-latin characters in username.
jib starts a discussion: Scalability.
Mionione starts a discussion: Flood attack 0.00000001 BC.
knightmb starts a discussion: Runaway CPU usage for 64bit BitCoin (Linux Client).
andy_3_913 starts a discussion: resource hog.
Giulio Prisco starts a discussion: They want to delete the Wikipedia article.
Satoshi Nakamoto starts a discussion: Bitcoin 0.3.1 released.
EricJ2190 starts a discussion: "SetIcons(): icon bundle doesn't contain any suitable icon".
AndrewBuck starts a discussion: Source code documentation.
singpolyma starts a discussion: Assertion Failure - Ubuntu Lucid.
Insti starts a discussion: Bitcoin snack machine (fast transaction problem).
wobber starts a discussion: Nenolod, the guy that wants to prove Bitcoin doesn't work..
mtgox starts a discussion: bitcoind not responding to RPC.
lfm starts a discussion: a simple traffic load test run.
Red starts a discussion: Stealing Coins.
Olipro starts a discussion: Bitcoin x86 for Windows.
xc starts a discussion: Bitcoin does NOT violate Mises' Regression Theorem.
psyvenrix starts a discussion: Having problems specifing -datadir.
Odin starts a discussion: Linux distribution download.
Olipro starts a discussion: A proposal for a semi-automated Escrow mechanism.
tcatm starts a discussion: 4 hashes parallel on SSE2 CPUs for 0.3.6.
bytemaster starts a discussion: Multiple Wallets, one computer (multiple accounts).
nimnul starts a discussion: Bitcoind x86 binary for CentOS.
MoonShadow starts a discussion: Bitcoin Watchdog Service.
gridecon starts a discussion: Bitcoin minting is thermodynamically perverse.
lfm starts a discussion: bitcoin generation broken in 0.3.8? (64-bit).
Red starts a discussion: Not a suggestion.
dkaparis starts a discussion: BSD detection.
gebler starts a discussion: Potential disaster scenario.
Satoshi Nakamoto starts a discussion: tcatm's 4-way SSE2 for Linux 32/64-bit is in 0.3.10.
lfm starts a discussion: overflow bug SERIOUS.
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mkrogh starts a discussion: checkpointing the block chain.
kosovito starts a discussion: 28 days without generation, i have 4200khash/s.
Jeff Garzik starts a discussion: RFC: remove DB_PRIVATE flag.
nelisky starts a discussion: auto backing up of wallet.dat.
icaro starts a discussion: Warning : Check your system clock (help me).
Jeff Garzik starts a discussion: Always pay transaction fee?.
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eurekafag starts a discussion: Memory leak.
kermit starts a discussion: I broke my wallet, sends never confirm now..
Jeff Garzik starts a discussion: Prioritized transactions, and tx fees.
m0mchil starts a discussion: python OpenCL bitcoin miner.
Jeff Garzik starts a discussion: [PATCH] increase block size limit.
Dhaw starts a discussion: ERROR - PLEASE HELP ME!.
Odin starts a discussion: Win7 64bit since last patch Tues now crashes.
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genjix starts a discussion: Wikileaks contact info?.
appamatto starts a discussion: BitDNS and Generalizing Bitcoin.
Jeff Garzik starts a discussion: Transaction / spam flood attack currently under way.
Jeff Garzik starts a discussion: RFC: ship block chain 1-74000 with release tarballs?.
davux starts a discussion: JSON-RPC method idea: list transactions newer than a given txid.
galeru raises questions about how users will determine transaction fees, noting that current debates about BitDNS assume fine-grained miner fee decisions without any user-friendly implementation.
The Bitcoin Forum, set up by Martti Malmi at bitcoin.org/smf, migrates to the independent bitcointalk.org domain in August 2011. Theymos managed the migration; all posts and accounts were preserved.
Laszlo Hanyecz pays 10,000 BTC for two Papa John's pizzas — the first purchase of a physical good with Bitcoin. Completed May 22, 2010 and celebrated annually as Bitcoin Pizza Day. ~$41 at the time.
An integer overflow bug (CVE-2010-5139) was exploited to create 184 billion BTC in Block 74638. Satoshi published a fix within 5 hours; the corrected chain overtook the invalid one within 15 hours.
NewLibertyStandard publishes the first exchange rate for Bitcoin: $1 = 1,309.03 BTC ($0.000764 per BTC), calculated from the electricity cost of mining — a rudimentary but historic first valuation.
NewLibertyStandard proposes adopting the Thai baht symbol (฿) as Bitcoin's symbol and BTC as the three-letter code on BitcoinTalk, establishing the notation still in use today.
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Welcome to the new Bitcoin forum!".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Repost: Bitcoin Maturation".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Repost: Request: Make this anonymous?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Repost: How anonymous are bitcoins?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Repost: Linux/UNIX compile".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Bitcoin 0.2 released!".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Proof-of-work difficulty increasing".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Bitcoin client and website translation".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Post your static IP".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "UI improvements".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Command Line and JSON-RPC".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "New icon/logo".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Idea for file hosting and proxy services".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Exception: 9key_error error".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Bitcoin 0.3 released!".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Sample account system using JSON-RPC needed".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Bitcoin 0.3.2 released".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "JSON-RPC password".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Warning: don't use -server or bitcoind where you web browse (v0.3.2 and lower)".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Faster initial block download (5x faster)".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.2.5 -- please test!".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Bitcoin 0.3.3 released -- PLEASE UPGRADE".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "bitcoind without wxWidgets".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "*** ALERT *** Upgrade to 0.3.6".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Webpage idea: Next predicted difficulty change".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Please upgrade to 0.3.8!".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Escrow".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.8.1 update for Linux 64-bit".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Connection limits".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Bugfixes in SVN rev 130".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.9 rc1, please test".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.10 - block 74638 overflow PATCH!".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "blocks minus 1".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Checking the block chain on load".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Need a post writing up some things users should know".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Development of alert system".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Gentoo Linux Ebuild".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.11 with upgrade alerts".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.12".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Auto-detect for 128-bit 4-way SSE2".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Internal version number".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "0.3.13 RC1 for Windows, please test".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.13, please upgrade".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.14".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.15".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "New getwork".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.17".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Accounts example code".
Laszlo Hanyecz posts his famous offer to pay 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas, leading to the first known real-world Bitcoin transaction on May 22, 2010 — now celebrated as Bitcoin Pizza Day.
Gavin Andresen announces he has been invited to give a presentation about Bitcoin at the CIA, which may have contributed to Satoshi's subsequent withdrawal from the project.
Satoshi discusses the difficulty of applying traditional tax frameworks to Bitcoin, noting the similarities to trading precious metals or collectibles online.
Satoshi's last known public post on BitcoinTalk. He discusses software updates and then disappears from public communication.
Hal Finney's famous retrospective on his early involvement with Bitcoin, his interactions with Satoshi, and his battle with ALS. One of the most celebrated posts in Bitcoin history.