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Hal Finney's private email to Satoshi during the pre-release code review period, asking foundational questions about Bitcoin's scalability: 'How large do you envision it becoming? Tens of nodes? Thousands? Millions?'
Renowned security researcher Dan Kaminsky attempted to find vulnerabilities in Bitcoin and failed. 'I came up with beautiful bugs. But every time I went after the code there was a line that addressed the problem.' He concluded: 'Either there's a team of people who worked on this, or this guy is a genius.'
Ray Dillinger's retrospective on his role in Bitcoin's earliest days: reviewing the blockchain code, his division of labor with Hal Finney, and his reflections on Satoshi's integrity — 'He wasn't selling coins, he was giving them away for solving hashes.'
Comprehensive interview with Ray Dillinger by Tim Swanson, marking the 10th anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper. Dillinger reveals technical details of his code review, including the famous floating-point discovery and Satoshi's reasoning for using double-precision floats.