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Satoshi confirms Bitcoin is fully operational and offers to send coins to anyone who tries the software, in response to Michel Bauwens' question on the P2P Research mailing list.
Satoshi discusses potential risks and how the Bitcoin network is resilient, explaining that the system can survive and recover from various disruption scenarios.
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.