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Event January 25, 2009 Added October 3, 2026 Updated October 3, 2026 Private Correspondence 10 messages

Satoshi ↔ Nicholas Bohm Correspondence

Nicholas Bohm ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

Bohm answers Satoshi's offer to look at his debug.log: Bitcoin runs and generates, but the NOD32 antivirus reports it as a virus, and the client crashed four or five times the day before.

Event January 9, 2009 Added October 12, 2026 Updated October 14, 2026 Analysis

Satoshi Nakamoto and Visual C++ 6.0: Microsoft's sign-up era and a money with no account

Satoshi Nakamoto ↔ Jeffrey Altman, John Gilmore, Hal Finney, Ray Dillinger

By 2008 Microsoft's free compiler wanted a Passport sign-in. Satoshi built Bitcoin on a 1998 Visual C++ 6.0 and free MinGW. The registration era, pseudonymous sign-ups, and a design with no account.

Event January 9, 2009 Added May 23, 2026 Updated October 14, 2026 Analysis

Satoshi's Windows workbench: 27 months of MinGW and Visual C++ 6.0, then a Linux build of his own

Satoshi Nakamoto ↔ Martti Malmi, Gavin Andresen, Hal Finney, Wei Dai, Adam Back, Laszlo Hanyecz, The Madhatter

Satoshi coded Bitcoin on Windows for 27 months, mainly with MinGW. In November 2009 he finished the Linux build Martti Malmi had started; by mid-2010 there were Windows, Linux and Mac releases.