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Eugen Leitl contradicts Satoshi's claim that bitcoin.sourceforge.net was working, reporting the site is still down, and asks whether Debian (.deb) packages for Bitcoin are available.
NewLibertyStandard reports occasional Bitcoin crashes while running under Wine 1.0.1, speculates a possible correlation with wallet balance, and shares the terminal output produced at startup.
Satoshi provides the bitcoin-list mailing list info, agrees with Mike's micropayment approach, and explains why he chose a custom serialization format over protocol buffers for security reasons.
Nicholas Bohm reports that v0.1.5 has been running trouble free with 201 transactions accumulated, and asks Satoshi: "What's next?"
Steenbergen asks whether Bitcoin resembles David Chaum's anonymous digital money and whether the system has a managed limited money supply or creates money at the moment of transaction.
James A. Donald asks how Simplified Payment Verification handles double-spending under concurrent network conditions, raising concerns about government attacks on financial networks.