Private Correspondence

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12 entries

Event April 18, 2011 Private Correspondence 4 messages

Satoshi ↔ Mike Hearn — Holding Coins & Farewell

Mike Hearn describes his work on Google's abuse team and proposes using Bitcoin as collateral against accounts for spam prevention, asking about time-locking coins.

Event March 7, 2011 Private Correspondence 5 messages

Satoshi ↔ Mike Hearn — BitcoinJ & Contracts

Mike Hearn ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

Mike Hearn announces the open-source release of BitcoinJ under the Apache 2 license, and asks about merkle branch verification, scripting language ideas, and why transaction replacement was disabled.

Event December 27, 2010 Private Correspondence 8 messages

Satoshi ↔ Mike Hearn — More Questions

Mike Hearn ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

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.

Event December 20, 2010 Private Correspondence 4 messages

Satoshi ↔ Gavin Andresen Correspondence

Gavin Andresen ↔ Martti Malmi, Satoshi Nakamoto

Gavin warns that distributing the forum database would betray registered users' trust, supports daily PGP-encrypted backups, and offers to pay for Amazon S3 storage if backups stay under a gigabyte.

Event October 26, 2009 Private Correspondence 12 messages

bitcoin.sourceforge.net is down

Liberty Standard ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

Liberty Standard notifies Satoshi that the Bitcoin website is down, showing a bitweaver TEST mode warning instead of the normal page.

Event May 2, 2009 Private Correspondence 257 messages

Satoshi ↔ Martti Malmi Correspondence

Martti Malmi ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

Martti Malmi's first message to Satoshi: introduces himself as Trickstern from the anti-state.com forum, offers to help with Bitcoin development.

Event April 25, 2009 Private Correspondence 2 messages

Satoshi ↔ Mike Hearn — Chargeback & Escrow

Mike Hearn ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

Mike Hearn asks Satoshi whether the Electronic Funds Transfer Act could apply to Bitcoin and if the inability to do chargebacks risks making it illegal.

Event April 12, 2009 Private Correspondence 14 messages

Satoshi ↔ Mike Hearn — Initial Questions

Mike Hearn ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

Mike Hearn contacts Satoshi Nakamoto for the first time with questions about Bitcoin's scalability, mining hardware, inflation schedule, and coin denominations.

Event January 11, 2009 Private Correspondence 20 messages

Satoshi ↔ Dustin Trammell Correspondence

Dustin Trammell ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

Trammell's first email to Satoshi after running the Bitcoin alpha. Shares a public timestamp service link and asks about coin maturity (generated coins showing 0.00 credit).

Event November 19, 2008 Private Correspondence 2 messages

Satoshi ↔ Hal Finney Correspondence

Hal Finney ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

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.

Event August 22, 2008 Private Correspondence 3 messages

Satoshi ↔ Wei Dai Correspondence

Satoshi Nakamoto ↔ Wei Dai

Satoshi emails Wei Dai asking for the correct b-money citation, revealing he learned of it via Adam Back. The email linked the pre-release draft 'Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party'.

Event August 20, 2008 Private Correspondence 5 messages

Satoshi ↔ Adam Back Correspondence

Satoshi Nakamoto ↔ Adam Back

The earliest known email from Satoshi Nakamoto: contacting Adam Back to verify the Hashcash citation and sharing a pre-release draft titled 'Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party'.