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January 10, 2009 Cryptography Mailing List 8 messages

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

Hal Finney ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

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.