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Mike Hearn publishes his email correspondence with Satoshi
Mike Hearn publishes his private email correspondence with Satoshi Nakamoto, providing valuable insights into Satoshi's thinking about Bitcoin's technical future.
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Entries originating from this channel. The source axis lets you trace the venues Satoshi and contemporaries used over time.
37 entries / 5 threads
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Mike Hearn declares 'Bitcoin has failed' and sells all his coins
Mike Hearn published The Resolution of the Bitcoin Experiment, declaring Bitcoin had failed due to governance breakdown and the block-size stalemate. He sold all his coins and left the project.
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Mike Hearn's email exchange with Satoshi Nakamoto
Mike Hearn's private email correspondence with Satoshi Nakamoto, in which Satoshi stated he had 'moved on to other things' and that Bitcoin was 'in good hands with Gavin and everyone.'
Event Private Correspondence 4 messages
Satoshi ↔ Mike Hearn — Holding Coins & Farewell
Mike Hearn describes his work on Google's abuse team and proposes using Bitcoin as collateral against accounts for spam prevention, asking about time-locking coins.
Event Private Correspondence 5 messages
Satoshi ↔ Mike Hearn — BitcoinJ & Contracts
Mike Hearn announces the open-source release of BitcoinJ under the Apache 2 license, and asks about merkle branch verification, scripting language ideas, and why transaction replacement was disabled.
Event Private Correspondence 8 messages
Satoshi ↔ Mike Hearn — More Questions
Mike Hearn asks about the origin of the 21 million coin limit, the 10-minute block target, and the 500KB block size limit while working on a Java SPV implementation for Android.
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Merry Christmas Satoshi: the studied silence behind Satoshi's non-technical replies
When correspondents wished Satoshi merry Christmas, predicted Bitcoin at $10M per coin, or hoped he was doing well, his replies opened on the technical topic and never returned. Five-pattern audit.
Event Private Correspondence 2 messages
Satoshi ↔ Mike Hearn — Chargeback & Escrow
Mike Hearn asks Satoshi whether the Electronic Funds Transfer Act could apply to Bitcoin and if the inability to do chargebacks risks making it illegal.
Event Private Correspondence 14 messages
Satoshi ↔ Mike Hearn — Initial Questions
Mike Hearn contacts Satoshi Nakamoto for the first time with questions about Bitcoin's scalability, mining hardware, inflation schedule, and coin denominations.