James A. Donald

From Satoshipedia, the Satoshi Mail encyclopedia

James A. Donald took part in the Cryptography mailing list. Two days after Satoshi posted the white paper he wrote the first public reply: “We very, very much need such a system, but the way I understand your proposal, it does not seem to scale to the required size.” (the thread). Satoshi's answers in that thread are some of his earliest explanations of how Bitcoin would scale.

Donald was also copied on Satoshi's November 2008 pre-release source code, along with Hal Finney and Ray Dillinger.

In the archive

10 messages in 1 conversations with Satoshi.

• Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper 10 messages

See also

• Bitcoin white paper
• Pre-release source code

Primary sources

The messages and commits this article draws on, in Satoshi Mail and where they were first published.

1. Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper, Cryptography mailing list, 2 November 2008. Original source

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