correspondence

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.

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.

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.

Satoshi ↔ Gavin Andresen Correspondence

Gavin Andresen begins corresponding with Satoshi after discovering Bitcoin in May 2010 and starts submitting code contributions. He creates the Bitcoin Faucet to give away free BTC and boost adoption.

Satoshi ↔ Nicholas Bohm Correspondence

Nicholas Bohm, a retired British solicitor and early Bitcoin user, writes to Satoshi that after installing a new router, his Bitcoin client can no longer connect to the network.

Satoshi ↔ Martti Malmi Correspondence

Satoshi's first reply to Martti Malmi, who had offered to help with Bitcoin. Satoshi praises Malmi's understanding of Bitcoin and asks him to help write website content and a FAQ.

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.

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.

Satoshi ↔ Dustin Trammell Correspondence

Dustin Trammell's first email to Satoshi after running the Bitcoin alpha. Reports usage, mentions a public timestamp service, and asks about coin maturity (generated coins showing 0.00 credit).

Satoshi ↔ Hal Finney Correspondence

Hal Finney's private email to Satoshi during pre-release code review, asking foundational scalability questions: 'How large do you envision it becoming? Tens of nodes? Thousands? Millions?'