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Trammell's first email to Satoshi after running the Bitcoin alpha. Shares a public timestamp service link and asks about coin maturity (generated coins showing 0.00 credit).
Trammell tells Satoshi about his proof-hashes Google Group, gives feedback on the credit field display, reports running v0.1.1 and will upgrade, and offers to help test new features.
Trammell reports two issues upgrading from v0.1.0 to v0.1.3: the old process wouldn't exit, and all four generated coins showed 'Generated (not accepted)' — likely orphans from the communications bug.
Trammell asks what prevents the most powerful node from generating the majority of bitcoins — one of the earliest questions about mining centralization.
Trammell provides his IP address for Satoshi to send coins, explains the proof-hashes group is open for posting, discusses Bitcoin's early vulnerability, and compares mining to a roulette wheel.
Trammell's detailed security analysis of Bitcoin's send-to-IP feature, identifying MITM vulnerabilities including ARP poisoning and ISP-level interception. Recommends always using Bitcoin addresses.
Trammell confirms his IP is static, agrees to CC publicly, says he'll join bitcoin-list, reveals he started mining as an investment after Hal Finney's message, and discusses micropayment uptake.
Trammell reports confusion about a 100 BTC transfer between his own two Bitcoin instances — the transaction details showed 'Satoshi' as a label, leading him to wonder if Satoshi had sent the coins.
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.
The COPA v Wright record revealed that Nicholas Bohm — previously known only for a January 2009 bitcoin-list bug report — also exchanged a private series of troubleshooting emails with Satoshi.
Hal Finney congratulates Satoshi on the first alpha and his famous thought experiment: if Bitcoin becomes the dominant payment system, each coin would be ~$10M — early mining a 100M-to-1 payoff bet.
In a podcast interview, security researcher Dustin Trammell (Druid) describes being possibly the second node on the Bitcoin network — seeing only one other node for hours after first connecting.
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 replies to Dustin Trammell, explaining the coin maturity system and recommending an upgrade to version 0.1.3 which had stabilized the software.
Satoshi informs Trammell that bugs are fixed in v0.1.3 and offers to send him some coins via the send-to-IP feature, one of the earliest known direct Bitcoin transfers.