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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.
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.
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.
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.
Liberty Standard notifies Satoshi that the Bitcoin website is down, showing a bitweaver TEST mode warning instead of the normal page.
Martti Malmi's first message to Satoshi: introduces himself as Trickstern from the anti-state.com forum, offers to help with Bitcoin development.
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.
Mike Hearn contacts Satoshi Nakamoto for the first time with questions about Bitcoin's scalability, mining hardware, inflation schedule, and coin denominations.
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.
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).
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.
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'.
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'.