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Nearly eight years after the 2010 pizza trade, Hanyecz buys two pizzas over the Lightning Network, with the delivery driver handing them over only when he shows part of the payment preimage.
Mike Belshe suspended the SegWit2x hard fork on the mailing list, about a week before the planned 2 MB activation at block 494784. The New York Agreement collapsed without a chain split.
Ten days after the October 2008 version resurfaced, James Evans asks the cryptography list for the earlier draft Satoshi sent Wei Dai, "Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party." No one replied.
James Evans asks the cryptography list whether anyone saved the first version of the Bitcoin whitepaper, posted at bitcoin.org on October 31, 2008 before the March 24, 2009 revision replaced it.
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin 0.3.19 is released".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin 0.3.18 is released".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "[bitcoin-list] ALERT - we are investigating a problem".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "[bitcoin-list] Alert: upgrade to bitcoin 0.3.6".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin 0.3 released!".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin 0.2 released".
Eugen Leitl contradicts Satoshi's claim that bitcoin.sourceforge.net was working, reporting the site is still down, and asks whether Debian (.deb) packages for Bitcoin are available.
Satoshi responds to Liberty Standard's report of Bitcoin crashing under Wine, attributing it to Wine compatibility issues. Eugen Leitl also replied in the thread, asking about Debian packages.
NewLibertyStandard reports occasional Bitcoin crashes while running under Wine 1.0.1, speculates a possible correlation with wallet balance, and shares the terminal output produced at startup.
Satoshi introduces Bitcoin to the P2P Research mailing list, explaining trust-based currency problems and how Bitcoin uses cryptographic proof and a peer-to-peer network to solve double-spending.
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin v0.1.5 released".
John Gilmore objects that proof-of-work money would burn every idle cycle, consuming electricity and generating carbon dioxide all over the Internet, and asks why bank money can't simply be converted.
Satoshi Nakamoto responds to Nicholas Bohm's report of problems running Bitcoin, asking for the debug.log file to diagnose the issue.
Nicholas Bohm asks the bitcoin-list whether it is the right place to report a couple of problems he has had running Bitcoin, with about 70kb of attachments.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin v0.1 released".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin v0.1.3".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin v0.1 Alpha release notes".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin v0.1.2 now available".
Satoshi announces the release of Bitcoin v0.1, the first working implementation of the Bitcoin software. Available for Windows, with the source code included.
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "[bitcoin-list] Welcome".
Satoshi Nakamoto's first public announcement of Bitcoin on the Cryptography Mailing List. He introduces a peer-to-peer electronic cash system with no trusted third party.
Hal Finney invites the list to try rpow.net: a server that takes hashcash and issues reusable RSA-signed tokens, running on an IBM 4758 card whose signed attestation lets anyone check the code.
Asked how to stop a present event being passed off as a past one, Assange answers that you need a trusted time-notary who publishes hashes somewhere hard to undo, such as a newspaper.
Adam Back reposts the full text of Wei Dai's b-money proposal to the Cypherpunks list, with comments to follow — the message that opened the December 1998 b-money design discussion.
Wei Dai announces b-money on the Cypherpunks list as a brief addendum to PipeNet 1.1, pointing readers to his eskimo.com page — the proposal later cited as reference [1] in the Bitcoin whitepaper.
Adam Back announces Hashcash: partial SHA-1 collisions as postage for remailers and spam control, costly to compute and instant to verify, and a stop-gap until digicash spreads.
Jim Choate rejects a central majordomo: he envisions a fishnet of remailers where each node links to two others. "There should be no 'one main' anything on this project."
Adam Back proposes one main majordomo feeding many mail exploders, an architecture he credits John Gilmore with suggesting as the simpler alternative.
Jim Choate reports the first link between cypherpunks@ssz.com and cypherpunks@algebra.com and hopes a three-way link will be ready for prime time.
Lance Cottrell, author of Mixmaster, opens cypherpunks@cyberpass.net and says he favors a multi-node list, where no one site can censor it and losing any one node is not catastrophic.
Adam Back welcomes Sten Drescher's plan for a network of majordomos to carry a new Cypherpunks list and suggests mail exploders behind a central majordomo as a simpler design.
John Gilmore says he will no longer host the Cypherpunks list: unless the community builds a new home by February 20, the list will cease to exist.
Timothy May explains why he left the Cypherpunks list when moderation began: John Gilmore may run his machine as he wishes, but no host owns the group, and censorship makes the list worse.
John Gilmore announces that Sandy Sandfort will moderate the Cypherpunks list for a one-month test, with unedited and flames lists for those who want everything.
Jim Byrd forwards Johan Helsingius's press release closing anon.penet.fi, a remailer with over half a million users, because Finnish law on the privacy of Internet messages was still unclear.
Rich Burroughs forwards a signed Usenet report: on August 22, 1996, a Helsinki court ordered Johan Helsingius to reveal the address the police wanted within 30 days or face fines and jail.
Henson tells the Cypherpunks list over 500 munitions T-shirts have shipped, 25% of U.S. profits go to Phil Zimmermann's legal defense fund, and buyers arrested for wearing one get a refund.
Don Henson reports over 350 RSA/Perl munitions T-shirts shipped by July 27, 1995: under ITAR, wearing one where a non-U.S./Canadian citizen can see it counts as exporting cryptography.
Hal Finney posts a recorded Netscape order session encrypted with SSL's exportable 40-bit RC4 and challenges the list to break it and recover the fake name and address he entered.
Mike Duvos asks whether anyone has obtained DigiCash's software: it is for sale on Chaum's web page but apparently only for electronic money. "A classic chicken and egg situation. :)"
DigiCash's press release, forwarded to the Cypherpunks list: David Chaum demonstrates software-only electronic cash payments over the Internet at the first World Wide Web conference in Geneva.
Timothy Newsham forwards an anonymous "Introduction to BlackNet": a group that buys and sells information of every kind, paying in cash, bank deposits, or its own "CryptoCredits."
Timothy May reads the Clipper Chip as the "cc" chip: an automatic carbon copy for Big Brother. He bets the "Wiretap Chip" will be used for more than voice.
Paul Ferguson reviews Levy's "Crypto Rebels" in Wired's May/June 1993 issue, bought off a newsstand; the cover shows May, Hughes, and Gilmore in white plastic masks behind a flag.
Eric Hughes answers the Clipper chip announcement the same evening in four lines: he will say much more in the coming weeks, but for now only one thing. "No compromises."
Timothy May forwards the White House announcement of the Clipper chip and its key-escrow system: "it's not a spoof...I can't check the White House's signature!"
Eric Hughes posts A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, dated March 9, 1993, to the list: privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself, and "Cypherpunks write code."
Timothy May posts the Crypto Anarchist Manifesto to the Cypherpunks list: written in 1988 and read at the group's September 1992 founding meeting, it predicts anonymous markets beyond state control.
Answering May, Finney tells how PGP led him to Chaum's papers, which held the technologies to make Vinge's True Names work, and calls remailers the ground floor of making Big Brother obsolete.
May asks why random number generators draw dozens of Cypherpunks posts while Hal Finney's work on a fully encrypted remailer has drawn none: anonymous remailing is where cypherpunks need to be.
Eric Hughes posts the Perl script for a hopping remailer he wrote that morning, tests it with three hops, and names the next project: encrypting each message so the route stays hidden.
A tongue-in-cheek notice signed "Mr. Crypto": mail sent to hughes@soda.berkeley.edu with a Request-Remailing-To header is stripped of its headers and resent, though rumor says he saves everything.