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Hal Finney congratulates Satoshi on the first alpha release and performs his famous thought experiment: if Bitcoin becomes the world's dominant payment system, each coin would be worth approximately $10 million — making early mining 'quite a good bet, with a payoff of something like 100 million to 1.'
Dustin Trammell's first email to Satoshi Nakamoto after downloading and running the Bitcoin alpha release. Trammell reports on his experience running the software, mentions a public timestamp service, and asks about the coin maturity system after seeing generated coins showing 0.00 credit.
In a detailed podcast interview, security researcher Dustin Trammell ('Druid') describes his experience as possibly the second node on the Bitcoin network. He recalls seeing only 'one other node' for 4-6 hours after first connecting, not realizing mining was disabled by default, and not starting to mine until 4-5 days later.
The COPA v Wright record revealed that Nicholas Bohm, previously known only for a public January 2009 bitcoin-list bug report, had also exchanged a series of private emails with Satoshi Nakamoto. The exhibits show direct troubleshooting about routing, port forwarding, unaccepted blocks, and network isolation, including Satoshi's remark that there might have been almost nobody else running Bitcoin in July 2009.