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Event January 25, 2009 Added May 20, 2026 Updated May 21, 2026 Private Correspondence 20 messages

Satoshi ↔ Dustin Trammell Correspondence

Satoshi Nakamoto ↔ Dustin Trammell

Satoshi responds to Hal Finney's botnet/pay-per-send point, proposing that fake mailboxes could 'reverse-spam' spammers by harvesting their POW tokens. He also describes e-gold's 'dusting' problem.

Event January 25, 2009 Added March 19, 2026 Updated July 20, 2026 Article

Re: Bitcoin v0.1 released - Spam, POW tokens, and reverse-spamming

Satoshi Nakamoto ↔ Dustin Trammell

Satoshi responds to Hal Finney's botnet/pay-per-send point, proposing that fake mailboxes could 'reverse-spam' spammers by harvesting their POW tokens. He also describes e-gold's 'dusting' problem.

Event January 25, 2009 Added February 8, 2026 Updated April 6, 2026 Mailing List 8 messages

"Bitcoin v0.1 released" — Satoshi announces the first Bitcoin release to the cryptography list (January 2009)

Satoshi Nakamoto ↔ Hal Finney

Satoshi discusses how proof-of-work tokens could mitigate spam by creating economic incentives that make spamming unprofitable, including the concept of reverse-spamming with fake mailboxes.