Oldest Bitcoin Linux Binaries

[DataPools]

Does anyone have the bitcoin-0.2.0-linux.tar.gz or bitcoin-0.3.9.rc2-linux.tar.gz? Any of the early bitcoin linux binaries initially released by Satoshi would work too. They used to be on SourceForge, but that's gone now.

It would be a big help in indulging my curiosity. I am aware that these early clients won't be able to work with the network, but I'm interested in looking at the
earliest linux binaries released by Satoshi.

Thanks in advance!

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[BASE16]

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/archive/v0.2.0.tar.gz

Or for older ones see the releases: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tags?after=v0.2.5

[DataPools]

Those are the sources, not Satoshi's compiled binaries right? I'm looking for the initial compiled linux binaries released by Satoshi.

[NotATether]

Those are the sources, not Satoshi's compiled binaries right? I'm looking for the initial compiled linux binaries released by Satoshi.

Yes that is source code, you can see it's marked as such on the Github page. Generally people don't distribute binaries for Linux because on Linux everybody's build configuration is different and each Linux system needs different libraries to be linked, so the easiest way to distribute programs on Linux is to provide the source code and have users build the binaries themselves using something like `make`.

In particular, I don't think there were any binaries mads for bitcoin versions that old, if somebody wants to be really macho, they can compile it on the same OS you're using, run a `make install` with a different installation path, zip it in a tar.gz and give you the precompiled binary of that.

[DataPools]

Ah, so nobody would have the binaries linked here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=806.msg9046#msg9046?

[NotATether]

Ah, so nobody would have the binaries linked here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=806.msg9046#msg9046?

Interesting. When I tried to download the binaries in that link, they were unavailable. But perhaps someone saved it on Internet Archive https://web.archive.org. Enter the full URL of the download link there to see if there are any copies of it.

[DataPools]

Yeah, unfortunately not saved on archive.org. Would be great if anyone had those old binaries could share them here

[BASE16]

Those are the sources, not Satoshi's compiled binaries right? I'm looking for the initial compiled linux binaries released by Satoshi.

It doesn't work like that it's not released as compiled binaries for Linux.
The application is usually build from source code and compiled on a target system.
The source code is written in C++ so it can be compiled on any system that has all the needed dependencies and a suitable compiler.
I am not sure what you are looking for but if you want to examine how Nakamoto got to his starting point it's could be in your best interest to read the literature that he recommended.

References
[1] W. Dai, "b-money," http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt, 1998.
[2] H. Massias, X.S. Avila, and J.-J. Quisquater, "Design of a secure timestamping service with minimal
trust requirements," In 20th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, May 1999.
[3] S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "How to time-stamp a digital document," In Journal of Cryptology, vol 3, no
2, pages 99-111, 1991.
[4] D. Bayer, S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "Improving the efficiency and reliability of digital time-stamping,"
In Sequences II: Methods in Communication, Security and Computer Science, pages 329-334, 1993.
[5] S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "Secure names for bit-strings," In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference
on Computer and Communications Security, pages 28-35, April 1997.
[6] A. Back, "Hashcash - a denial of service counter-measure,"
http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf, 2002.
[7] R.C. Merkle, "Protocols for public key cryptosystems," In Proc. 1980 Symposium on Security and
Privacy, IEEE Computer Society, pages 122-133, April 1980.
[8] W. Feller, "An introduction to probability theory and its applications," 1957.

[DataPools]

Who built the linux binary Satoshi linked here? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=806.msg9046#msg9046

Seeing as Satoshi developed primarily on Windows, did someone else build this? Did he get a linux system and build it himself?

Edit: It appears that the Linux version was created & compiled by Martti Malmi

[BASE16]

Those seem to be test builds.
For testing and it's not recommended to use compiled test versions in production, maybe when you are absolutely sure about it's origin and the checksum validates truth.
But many users still will want to compile it themselves.

But i still do not understand what you are trying to do.
You want to inspect a compiled application which does not make any sense to human, they are compiled for machine.
A human wanting to read machine code ? It doesn't make any sense.
If you want to inspect anything you would need the source code that's the part that is human readable.
I'm sure it's still floating around somewhere on the net or on some drive backup but it's of no use today.

[DaveF]

I know I posted about it in another thread.
Compiling them today can be done but it takes some time to hunt down the old dependencies.

When I did it, I wound up just downloaded the full set of 7 DVDs of a 2011 version of linux so they were all there.

Not simple or quick or even worth the time but it can be done.

-Dave

[dextronomous]

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bitcoin-0.2.0-win32-setup.exe	2009-12-16	3.1 MB	
bitcoin-0.2.0-win32.zip	2009-12-16	3.1 MB	
bitcoin-0.2.0-linux.tar.gz	2009-12-16	2.4 MB	

https://web.archive.org/web/20110503012620/http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/
bitcoin-0.1.5   2009-02-04   could not find old ones available for download btw.
https://web.archive.org/web/20091128185352/http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/project/bitcoin/Research%20Paper/bitcoin.pdf/bitcoin.pdf

[DataPools]

Yeah, looked all over the SourceForge on archive.org. Seems like archive.org was not able to save the old bitcoin sourceforge binaries, unfortunately.