first-contact

Satoshi ↔ Dustin Trammell Correspondence

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.

Questions about BitCoin

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

Satoshi ↔ Martti Malmi Correspondence

Satoshi's first reply to Martti Malmi, who had offered to help with Bitcoin. Satoshi praises Malmi's understanding of Bitcoin and asks him to help write website content and a FAQ.