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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 warns against using a block size limit patch, agreeing with theymos that it would cause network incompatibility, and suggests phasing in changes later when needed.
Mike Hearn contacts Satoshi Nakamoto for the first time with questions about Bitcoin's scalability, mining hardware, inflation schedule, and coin denominations.
Software engineer at Google (Maps, Earth, Gmail anti-spam) who contacted Satoshi in April 2009, became an early contributor, and built BitcoinJ. His Satoshi correspondence was made public in 2017.
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?'
Hal Finney to Satoshi during pre-release code review, asking how large the P2P node network might grow — tens to millions — and whether clients could scale to all world financial transactions.
James A. Donald responds to Satoshi's Bitcoin announcement, raising the question of how the system scales and how nodes agree on a single transaction history.