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Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Welcome to the new Bitcoin forum!".
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Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Welcome to the new Bitcoin forum!".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Repost: Bitcoin Maturation".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Repost: Request: Make this anonymous?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Repost: How anonymous are bitcoins?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Repost: Linux/UNIX compile".
Satoshi explains that Bitcoin generation has a real cost in electricity and computing resources, drawing parallels to gold mining.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "A few suggestions".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Questions about Bitcoin".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Bitcoin 0.2 released!".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Is my second Transaction working correctly?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "64bit support".
Satoshi explains Bitcoin's privacy model, comparing it to the privacy model of stock exchanges where the public can see transactions but not who is behind them.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Number of connections?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "TOR and I2P".
Satoshi discusses the difficulty of applying traditional tax frameworks to Bitcoin, noting the similarities to trading precious metals or collectibles online.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Bitcoin crash when sending coins".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Blocks never stop generating?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Payment server".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "A newb's test - anyone want to buy a picture for $1?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Win32 CPU Cycles vs 'Live Protection' Engines?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Questions about Addresses".
Satoshi discusses the difficulty adjustment mechanism and the long-term economics of Bitcoin mining, explaining how the system self-regulates.
Satoshi explains the importance of Bitcoin being open source, arguing that the source code itself is the specification and that trust comes from transparency.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "How divisible are bitcoins and other market/economic questions".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Make your "we accept Bitcoin" logo".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Bitcoin client and website translation".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Simple to implement feature requests".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "DEB Package?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "What's with this odd generation?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Setting up multiple bitcoin machines behind NAT".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Number of connections".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Post your static IP".
Satoshi outlines the economic model of Bitcoin, explaining that rational market prices reflect expected future value, and compares production cost dynamics to commodity pricing.
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "UI improvements".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "generation slowed down dramatically".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Bitcoin Address Collisions".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Command Line and JSON-RPC".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "URI-scheme for bitcoin".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "New icon/logo".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "wxWidgets 2.9.0".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Money Transfer Regulations".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "bitcoin auto-renice-ing".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Idea for file hosting and proxy services".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "On IRC bootstrapping".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "who is bitcoin.com".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Exchange Methods".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Could the bitcoin network be destroyed...".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "For a website taking payments with bitcoins...".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Exception: 9key_error error".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "removing bitcoin addresses".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Is there a way to automate bitcoin payments...".
Laszlo Hanyecz posts his famous offer to pay 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas, leading to the first known real-world Bitcoin transaction on May 22, 2010 — now celebrated as Bitcoin Pizza Day.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Ummmm... where did my bitcoins go?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "We accept Bitcoins".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Tracing a coin's lineage".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "CLI bitcoin generation".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Website translations".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Odd amount of generated coins".
Satoshi asks the community to delay GPU mining, wanting to maintain fairness while the network is still growing and attracting new users.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Hostnames instead of IP Addresses".
Satoshi explains why SHA-256 collisions are not a practical concern for Bitcoin, describing the immense computational difficulty involved.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Technical clarifications".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "What is the incentive to collect transactions?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "new binary release?".
Satoshi explains the nature of Bitcoin's script system, describing it as a predicate that evaluates to true or false, enabling various transaction types.
Satoshi discusses Bitcoin's scalability, comparing potential transaction volume to Visa and explaining how the system can scale with technological progress.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Get 5 free bitcoins from freebitcoins.appspot.com".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Bitcoin in Ubuntu 10.04".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "0.3 almost ready -- please test the Mac version!".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "How fast do the fastest computers generate bitcoins?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "0.3 almost ready".
Satoshi explains Bitcoin's divisibility and potential future value. He suggests that if Bitcoin becomes widely used, each coin could be worth much more.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Bitcoin clients getting k-lined from the IRC bootstrapping channel".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "1.3 almost ready".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Bitcoin mobile.".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Building BitCoin Client completely Headless".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Bitcoin Faucet changes".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Beta?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "IPv6, headless client, and more".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Major Meltdown".
Satoshi explains the economics of mining and the difficulty adjustment in plain terms, noting that the system is designed to be fair regardless of computing power.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Feature Request: Limiting Connections".
Satoshi explains the currency supply schedule, the 21 million coin limit, and how the system transitions from coin generation to transaction fees.
Satoshi critiques a Slashdot submission draft, rejecting the 'anonymous' framing and 'stable-with-respect-to-energy' claims, noting how hard it is to describe Bitcoin for general audiences.
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Bitcoin 0.3 released!".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "bitcoin 0.3 win64 - broken access to APPDATA if non-latin characters in username".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Anonymity".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "BTC Vulnerability? (Massive Attack against BTC system. Is it really?)".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Security".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "No blocks downloaded... why?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "resource hog".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "stopped prodicing coins".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Building Bitcoin 0.3".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Stuck on 513 blocks".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Error on Ubuntu 10.04".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Runaway CPU usage for 64bit BitCoin (Linux Client)".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Warning this block was not received by any other nodes".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Hash/sec Throttling for Democracy".
Satoshi introduces the alert system in Bitcoin, a mechanism to broadcast warnings to all nodes in case of critical bugs or network issues.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "[Bitcoin 0.3.0] Runtime error".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Static Linux x86_64 bins for those having libcrypto troubles".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Bitcoin 0.3.1 released".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "0.3.1 release candidate, please test".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Website and software translations".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread ""SetIcons(): icon bundle doesn't contain any suitable icon"".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Donations to freebitcoins.appspot.com needed!".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Assertion Failure - Ubuntu Lucid".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Fedora 13 libcrypto".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Resending transaction".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Source code documentation".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Hash() function not secure".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Request: expected bitcoins per day display".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "The dollar cost of bitmining energy".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Website integration for bitcoin".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Sample account system using JSON-RPC needed".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "A New Currency System for the World".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "BUG Report: Rounding glitch".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Privacy versus Safety: handling change".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Nenolod, the guy that wants to prove Bitcoin doesn't work.".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Bitcoin 0.3.2 released".
Satoshi describes how a payment processor could enable fast Bitcoin transactions with good-enough checking in 10 seconds, explaining the propagation race that makes double-spending impractical.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Network Size".
Satoshi explains the security of Bitcoin's keypair generation and the astronomical odds against address collision.
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "JSON-RPC password".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Did block generation crawl to a halt?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Warning: don't use -server or bitcoind where you web browse (v0.3.2 and lower)".
Satoshi responds to the deletion of the Bitcoin Wikipedia article, reflecting on Bitcoin's notability and the need for mainstream recognition.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "bitcoind not responding to RPC".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Faster initial block download (5x faster)".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "JSON-RPC Multiple Invocations".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.2.5 -- please test!".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Reading/Writing Blocks and FLATDATA".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "a simple traffic load test run".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Bitcoin 0.3.3 released -- PLEASE UPGRADE".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Stealing Coins".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "md5?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "bitcoind without wxWidgets".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Bitcoin x64 for Windows".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Bitcoin x86 for Windows".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Having problems specifing -datadir".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Build error SVN r115 on my Mac: workaround".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Difficulty".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Scalability and transaction rate".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "wiki registration email?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "*** ALERT *** Upgrade to 0.3.6".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "*** ALERT *** version 0.3.6".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Implementation bug prior to 0.3.6".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Transaction disappeared in the void...".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Linux distribution download".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Bug: "Immature" coins lost in wallet.dat during transaction".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "[PATCH] implement 'listtransactions'".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "4 hashes parallel on SSE2 CPUs for 0.3.6".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Webpage idea: Next predicted difficulty change".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Linux version => No GUI after upgrade. WTF?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Mac Client Problems Outlined...".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Protocol Buffers for Bitcoin".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Builds for Ubuntu?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Bitcoind x86 binary for CentOS".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Content-Length header and 500".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "What happens when network is split for prolonged time and reconnected?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Please upgrade to 0.3.8!".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Building initial transaction trust through "coin ripping"".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Flood attack 0.00000001 BC".
Satoshi discusses the importance of having a single dominant cryptocurrency network rather than many competing ones, drawing an analogy to network effects.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Who's the Spanish jerk draining the Faucet?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "bitcoind transaction to ip address".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Transaction Overload Solution".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "A proposal for a semi-automated Escrow mechanism".
Satoshi warns that Bitcoin is not fully anonymous and that careful practices are needed to maintain privacy.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "latency and locality".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Bitcoin minting is thermodynamically perverse".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Escrow".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "bitcoin generation broken in 0.3.8?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.8.1 update for Linux 64-bit".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "What could be the transition plan to Y2038 compliant Bitcoin?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Connection limits".
Satoshi addresses concerns about deflation, arguing that coins lost or forgotten effectively reduce the money supply, making remaining coins slightly more valuable.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Compile error in SVN r127".
Satoshi explains why Bitcoin's proof-of-work is not wasteful, comparing it to the overhead of traditional banking and arguing that the energy expenditure is far less.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Lost large number of bitcoins".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Where is the separate discussion devoted to possible Bitcoin weaknesses.".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "BSD detection".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Bugfixes in SVN rev 130".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Bitcoin Watchdog Service".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.9 rc1, please test".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Proposed change to sendtoaddress API call".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "tcatm's 4-way SSE2 for Linux 32/64-bit is in 0.3.10".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Potential disaster scenario".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "tcatm's 4-way SSE2 for Linux 32/64-bit 0.3.9 rc2".
Satoshi responds to a critical value overflow incident in Bitcoin, one of the most serious bugs in Bitcoin's early history. He quickly deployed a fix.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "overflow bug SERIOUS".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.10 - block 74638 overflow PATCH!".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "0.3.10.1 Question on where block should be".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "blocks minus 1".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "[PATCH] Automatic block validation".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Checking the block chain on load".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "checkpointing the block chain".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "New screenshots to the front page?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Difficulty: More nodes active, or faster nodes?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Convert Bitcoin to GTK: Yes? No? wx is better?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "HOWTO: Compiling Bitcoin on Ubuntu 10.04 (Karmic)".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "28 days without generation, i have 4200khash/s".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Need a post writing up some things users should know".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Hypothetical question on lost coins / transfers".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Development of alert system".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "integrating digital payments into p2p protocols".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "RFC: remove DB_PRIVATE flag".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "auto backing up of wallet.dat".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Gentoo Linux Ebuild".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "New web service: obtain dump of bitcoin block NNNN".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Bitcoins are most like shares of common stock".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Bitcoin does NOT violate Mises' Regression Theorem".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.11 with upgrade alerts".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Big endian code problems".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "CryptoPP Assertion Error".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Warning : Check your system ( Help me )".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "HTTP status codes from the JSON-RPC api".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "bitcoind as daemon in OSX".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Always pay transaction fee?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.12".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Bitcoin Blogger: Is It Better To Buy Or Generate Bitcoins?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Auto-detect for 128-bit 4-way SSE2".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Won't let me send coins because it requires a transaction fee?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Running on a port other than 8333".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Switch to GPL".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Memory leak".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Issues building bitcoin on Windows 7".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Bug? /usr/bin/bitcoind """.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "The case for removing IP transactions".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Message Encryption as a built-in feature?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Internal version number".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Porn".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "How divisible are bitcoins - the technical side".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "How To Make a Distributed BitCoin Escrow Service".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "I broke my wallet, sends never confirm now.".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "0.3.13 RC1 for Windows, please test".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Prioritized transactions, and tx fees".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Remote RPC access".
Satoshi discusses the concept of Bitcoin banks, explaining that trusted third parties can provide convenience while the underlying system remains trustless.
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.13, please upgrade".
Satoshi comments on the permanence of the blockchain, noting that data embedded in it will persist as long as the network exists.
Satoshi warns against using a block size limit patch, agreeing with theymos that it would cause network incompatibility, and suggests phasing in changes later when needed.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "How to overthrow the GPU Oligarchs".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Tor connections not working reliably, many seednodes offline".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "The Niche List".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.14".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "ERROR - PLEASE HELP ME!".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Win7 64bit since last patch Tues now crashes".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Suggestion: Allow short messages to be sent together with bitcoins ?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Multiple Wallets, one computer".
Satoshi explains transaction fees as a mechanism for prioritization and network protection, not as revenue for miners.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Some testing that I did on the testnetwork, my findings.".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.15".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Need OP_BLOCKNUMBER to allow 'time' limited transactions".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Transaction / spam flood attack currently under way".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "OpenCL miner for the masses".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "New getwork".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "RFC: ship block chain 1-74000 with release tarballs?".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.17".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "New demonstration CPU miner available".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Cooperative mining".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Is safe running bitcoins with the same wallet on more computers simultaneously?".
Satoshi discourages the Bitcoin community from actively seeking WikiLeaks adoption, arguing that Bitcoin is still immature and the attention could be harmful.
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "JSON-RPC method idea: list transactions newer than a given txid".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Version 0.3.18".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Automated nightly builds".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "BitDNS and Generalizing Bitcoin".
Satoshi Nakamoto's reply in the thread "Fees in BitDNS confusion".
Satoshi Nakamoto's post: "Accounts example code".
One of Satoshi's last posts. After WikiLeaks begins accepting Bitcoin donations, Satoshi expresses concern that Bitcoin has 'kicked the hornet's nest' too early.
Satoshi's last known public post on BitcoinTalk. He discusses software updates and then disappears from public communication.