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Title: Where did Satoshi first announce Bitcoin? Post by: Tomatocage on November 30, 2013, 05:22:50 PM Surely this forum didn't exist before Bitcoin was announced. So I'm curious where Satoshi first released Bitcoin. Anybody know?
Title: Re: Where did Satoshi first announce Bitcoin? Post by: matte99 on November 30, 2013, 05:29:28 PM I think it was in a mailing list about cryptography
Title: Re: Where did Satoshi first announce Bitcoin? Post by: ruletheworld on November 30, 2013, 05:33:38 PM The cypherpunk mailing list. It (used to) has some of the best names in cryptography. And the requirement is, "you should write code!"
The cypherpunk movement has given us gems like PGP, Tor, and now Bitcoin. Their ideas about privacy and information snooping are eerily prescient two decades after they were formulated. Title: Re: Where did Satoshi first announce Bitcoin? Post by: DeathAndTaxes on November 30, 2013, 05:36:09 PM I believe (not 100% positive) this is the first announcement of Bitcoin using the word "Bitcoin". Satoshi may have posted earlier possibly under another psuedonym and not using the word Bitcoin (speaking in general terms about p2p cash) but that would be pretty hard to track down. Note the date, the whitepaper was published roughly
Satoshi Nakamoto Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:16:33 -0700 Quote I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party. The paper is available at: http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf The main properties: Double-spending is prevented with a peer-to-peer network. No mint or other trusted parties. Participants can be anonymous. New coins are made from Hashcash style proof-of-work. The proof-of-work for new coin generation also powers the network to prevent double-spending. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without the burdens of going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted party is still required to prevent double-spending. We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network. The network timestamps transactions by hashing them into an ongoing chain of hash-based proof-of-work, forming a record that cannot be changed without redoing the proof-of-work. The longest chain not only serves as proof of the sequence of events witnessed, but proof that it came from the largest pool of CPU power. As long as honest nodes control the most CPU power on the network, they can generate the longest chain and outpace any attackers. The network itself requires minimal structure. Messages are broadcasted on a best effort basis, and nodes can leave and rejoin the network at will, accepting the longest proof-of-work chain as proof of what happened while they were gone. Full paper at: http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Satoshi Nakamoto http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09959.html Some more dates from the early history https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/History Fun fact the first recorded exchange rate was 1309 BTC per USD. That would be worth ~$1.5 million today. Lots of people talk about the million dollar pizza but this first trader only got a buck. :) Title: Re: Where did Satoshi first announce Bitcoin? Post by: waxwing on November 30, 2013, 05:36:20 PM Here:
https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09959.html As you can see, it was 1 Nov 2008, not 5 Nov as some people think would be better :) Title: Re: Where did Satoshi first announce Bitcoin? Post by: DeathAndTaxes on November 30, 2013, 05:40:38 PM Here: https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09959.html As you can see, it was 1 Nov 2008, not 5 Nov as some people think would be better :) Well 31 OCT if you count encryption usenet. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Title: Re: Where did Satoshi first announce Bitcoin? Post by: btcperth on December 01, 2013, 10:55:23 AM Well 31 OCT if you count encryption usenet. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ just a thought... the timestamp in that msg is 2008-10-31 18:10:00 GMT If it was sent from Japan for example, this would mean it was actually sent on 1-Nov Japan time => GMT+9 hrs = 3:10 AM Title: Re: Where did Satoshi first announce Bitcoin? Post by: revans on December 01, 2013, 02:21:50 PM Surely this forum didn't exist before Bitcoin was announced. So I'm curious where Satoshi first released Bitcoin. Anybody know? Some time after having helped himself to a massive chunk of the Bitcoin monetary base. Title: Re: Where did Satoshi first announce Bitcoin? Post by: ruletheworld on December 01, 2013, 02:31:56 PM Surely this forum didn't exist before Bitcoin was announced. So I'm curious where Satoshi first released Bitcoin. Anybody know? Some time after having helped himself to a massive chunk of the Bitcoin monetary base. Title: Re: Where did Satoshi first announce Bitcoin? Post by: justusranvier on December 02, 2013, 02:43:41 AM Surely this forum didn't exist before Bitcoin was announced. So I'm curious where Satoshi first released Bitcoin. Anybody know? Some time after having helped himself to a massive chunk of the Bitcoin monetary base. As mentioned above, Satoshi announce Bitcoin a couple months before mining started in early January 2009 (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block). |