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September 23, 2026, 05:19:29 PM |
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Hi Everyone! Not entirely sure if this is the best place to post but I really want to get my work out here and moving. I am an independent researcher that constructed something I think is pretty noteworthy.
I’m researching the historical Linux runtime environments used by early Bitcoin clients, particularly their interaction with OpenSSL versions affected by Debian’s 2008 predictable-RNG vulnerability (CVE-2008-0166).
I recently completed a controlled, preregistered experiment using the Bitcoin v0.2.0 signing path. Holding the experimental conditions constant, the vulnerable Debian OpenSSL treatment produced a reproducible public ECDSA r sequence across fresh process restarts, while the repaired treatment did not.
I then froze that vulnerable-treatment fingerprint before accessing the historical cohort for comparison. A separately qualified comparator tested it against 142,302 eligible public Bitcoin signatures from blocks 0–100,000.
The historical result was:
ELIGIBLE_HISTORICAL_SIGNATURES=142302 VALID_PUBLIC_OBSERVATIONS=142302 EXCLUDED_OR_INVALID_OBSERVATIONS=0 PREREGISTERED_FINGERPRINT_INTERSECTIONS=0 DATASET_INTEGRITY=PASS COMPARISON_RULE_INTEGRITY=PASS
So I am not claiming that I identified historically vulnerable wallets or demonstrated wallet recovery. The exact prospectively frozen fingerprint simply was not present in that bounded historical cohort.
Rather than varying PID, timing, startup state, or other parameters until something matches, I’m stopping that approach and looking for independent historical evidence that can constrain what environments early users actually ran.
I’m particularly interested in hearing from anyone who ran Bitcoin on Linux during approximately 2009–2011 and still has any of the following from the same machine:
original computer or hard drive complete disk/forensic image VM image complete system backup package database / dpkg records APT cache historical libcrypto.so.0.9.8 or related runtime libraries logs or other material capable of establishing the historical Linux/OpenSSL environment
Even if you no longer have the system yourself, referrals to early Linux users or historical collections that may have preserved one would be useful.
I’m also interested in independent technical review or replication of the controlled vulnerable/repaired experiment. Please do not send me wallet.dat, private keys, seed phrases, passwords, credentials, or funds.
I do not need them for initial screening. If you believe you have relevant material, initially I only need non-secret information such as approximately when the machine ran Bitcoin, the Linux distribution if remembered, and what system material still survives.
I have prepared a technical dossier documenting the hypothesis, preregistration, treatment isolation, controls, controlled result, prospectively frozen historical test, zero intersection, limitations, and integrity hashes. I can provide it to researchers or artifact custodians interested in reviewing the work.
The main question is simply: Does anyone here still have—or know someone who might still have—a preserved Linux system or complete system backup from a machine that actually ran Bitcoin in 2009–2011?
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