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Emergency release of Bitcoin v0.3.10 to fix a value overflow vulnerability exploited to create 184 billion bitcoins in a single transaction. Satoshi coordinated the rapid soft-fork deployment.
Hanyecz recalls his Satoshi correspondence around the April 19, 2010 macOS port. The private emails are unreleased; quotes are from later interviews. He called Satoshi paranoid, bossy, and weird.
Satoshi tells Bohm he has pinpointed the bug, which could occur if a DNS lookup failed, links the fix, and thanks him for his help and patience.
Satoshi reveals the wallet location (%appdata%\Bitcoin), explains that its transactional database (DBM) survives crashes and power loss, and says socket cleanup code is in the next release.
Satoshi reveals the wallet directory (%appdata%\Bitcoin), notes the underlying transactional DBM is safe from crash/power loss, and confirms socket cleanup code is already added for the next release.