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Event January 3, 2009 Added May 27, 2026 Updated October 11, 2026 Design Document

Bitcoin storage design — block database, UTXO set, and chain state management

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

How Bitcoin Core persists blocks, maintains the UTXO set, indexes chain state, manages the mempool, prunes historical data, and bootstraps via assumeUTXO.

Event January 16, 2009 Added May 20, 2026 Updated May 22, 2026 Private Correspondence

Satoshi to Dustin Trammell: re: a few thoughts — wallet location and socket fix (January 16, 2009)

Satoshi Nakamoto ↔ Dustin Trammell

Satoshi reveals the wallet directory (%appdata%\Bitcoin), notes the underlying transactional DBM is safe from crash/power loss, and confirms socket cleanup code is already added for the next release.

Event January 16, 2009 Added March 19, 2026 Updated October 3, 2026 Article

Re: A few thoughts... - Wallet location and socket fix

Satoshi Nakamoto ↔ Dustin Trammell

Satoshi reveals the wallet location (%appdata%\Bitcoin), explains it uses a transactional database (DBM) safe from crash/power loss, and confirms socket cleanup code is added for the next release.