Scott Stornetta.
25
usually belonging to Satoshi:
Satoshi’s mining activities were
traced
by
the
Argentinian
researcher Sergio Demian Lerner.
Sergio Demian Lerner, “The Well
Deserved Fortune of Satoshi
Nakamoto,
Bitcoin
Creator,
Visionary and Genius,” Bitslog,
April
17,
2013,
https://bitslog.wordpress
.com/2013/04/17/the-well-
deserved-fortune-of-satoshi-
nakamoto/.
25
the first transaction took place
when Satoshi sent Hal ten coins:
Satoshi’s
address
for
this
transaction
was
12cbQLTFMXRnSzktF
kuoG3eHoMeFtpTu3S; Hal’s was
1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxX
tWAWgFt5Jvm3.
26
Satoshi was using his own
computers to help power the
network: Lerner.
26
When a programmer in Texas
wrote to Satoshi late one night:
The
programmer,
Dustin
Trammel, posted the e-mails on
his
blog
at
http://blog.dustintrammell.com/2013/11/26/i-am-not-satoshi/.
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29
Before reaching out to Satoshi,
Martti had written about Bitcoin
on anti-state.org: Martti’s post,
written under the screen name
Trickster,
is
available
at
https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/17233-p2p-currency-could-make-the-
government-extinct/.
30
“The
root
problem
with
conventional currency”: Satoshi
Nakamoto, “Bitcoin Open Source
Implementation of P2P Currency,”
P2P Foundation forum, February
11,
2009,
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-source.
33
It also meant that Satoshi’s
computers were stilclass="underline" Sergio
Demian
Lerner,
“The
Well
Deserved Fortune of Satoshi
Nakamoto,
Bitcoin
Creator,
Visionary and Genius,” Bitslog,
April
17,
2013,
https://bitslog.wordpress
.com/2013/04/17/the-well-
deserved-fortune-of-satoshi-
nakamoto/.
35
“Be safe from the unstability
caused by fractional reserve”: An
archived version of the page
designed by Martti is available at
http://web.archive
.org/web/20090511173000/http://bitcoin.sourceforge.net/.
35
A few dozen people downloaded
the Bitcoin program: Data on
software downloads available at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/stats/timeline.
37
Starting in August, the log of
changes to the software: The
history of changes to the software
is
available
at
https://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind/activities.
37
When the next version of Bitcoin,
0.2: Satoshi Nakamoto to DEV-
LIST, December 17, 2009.
37
the majority of coins were stilclass="underline"
Lerner.
37
throughout 2009 no one else was
sending or receiving: Data on the
number of transactions per block
available
at
https://blockchain.info/charts/n-
transactions-per-block.
38
In
the
very
first
recorded
transaction of Bitcoin for United
States dollars: Information on the
transaction
is
available
at
https://blockchain
.info/tx/7dff938918f07619abd38e4510890396b1cef4fbeca154fb7aaf ba8843295ea2.
38
NewLibertyStandard
came
up
with his own method: The
shuttered exchange is still online
at
http://newlibertystandard.wikifoundry.com/page/Exchange+Rate.
39
Swap Variety Shop on his
exchange website: The shuttered
shop
is
still
online
at
http://newlibertystandard.wikifoundry.com/page/Specialty+Shop.
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44
But on May 22, 2010, a guy in
California offered to call Lazlo’s
local Papa John’s: Information
about the Bitcoin transaction is
available
at
https://blockchain.info/tx/a1075db55d416d3ca199f55b6084e2115b9345e16c5cf302fc80e9d5fbf5d48d.
44
small item on the website of
InfoWorld:
Neil
McAllister,
“Open Source Innovation on the
Cutting Edge,” Info World, May 24,
2010,
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2627013/open-source-software/open-source-
innovation-on-the-cutting-
edge.html.
47
“Slashdot with its millions of
tech-savvy readers”: Martti Malmi
to BTCF, June 22, 2010.
48
“How’s this for a disruptive
technology?”: “Bitcoin Releases
Version 0.3,” Slashdot, July 11, 2010,
http://news-
beta.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/bitcoin-releases-version-03.
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49
The number of downloads would
jump from around three thousand:
Data on software downloads
available
at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/stats/timeline.
49
“Over the last two days of Bitcoin
being”: Gavin Andresen to BTCF,
July 14, 2010.
53
the difficulty of mining new
Bitcoins jumped 300 percent: Data
on mining difficulty available at
https://blockchain.info/charts/difficulty?
timespan=all&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_
header=true&scale=0&address=.
54
In one month, the forum had
gained more new members: Data
on forum usage available at
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?
action=stats.
57
“Nobody can stop the Bitcoin
system”: Keir Thomas, “Could the
Wikileaks Scandal Lead to New
Virtual Currency?” PC World,
December
10,
2010,
http://www.pcworld.com/article/213230/could_
wikileaks_scandal_lead_to_new_virtual_currency.html.
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65
“To tell the truth, I always felt”: Mark’s blog has been taken down,
but an archived version of this
post
is
available
at
http://web.archive
.org/web/20140302234940/http://blog.magicaltux.net/2006/02/12/pensees-nocturnes/.
69
begun in earnest in July 2010
when he had sold a cheap house in
Pennsylvania: RUTE GX 250 and
GX 251.
69
Ross rented a cabin about an hour
from his home in Austin, Texas:
RUTE GX 240A.
70
he knew he wanted to set up a
new kind of online market: RUTE
GX 240A.
70
His curiosity about and penchant
for the outdoors: Ross spoke about
his youth in a recording done for
the StoryCorps project with his
friend Rene Pinnel in 2012.
70
At Penn State, he had the unique
distinction:
Erin
Rowley,
“Caribbean Students Host Cultural
Event,” Daily Collegian, March 24,
2008,
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archives/article_ef9c02f3-a9c2-5b8f-b1d3-
f0ef82e3dce0.html.
Katharine
Lackey, “Paul to Visit PSU,”
Daily Collegian, March 26, 2008, http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archives/article_239513a3-a577-5732-bab0-