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Pre-release source code

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In November 2008, two months before the first release, Satoshi sent the core of his source code to three people from the Cryptography mailing list: Hal Finney, Ray Dillinger and James A. Donald. Finney's reply, copied to the other two, is in this archive (the email).

Dillinger later published the main files on BitcoinTalk, and nakamoto-archive keeps a copy.[1]

See also

References

  1. nakamoto-archive, “Complete archive of Satoshi Nakamoto's writings and productions”, GitHub. The README lists each source file with its origin, date and SHA-256 hash.

Primary sources

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

  1. Re: Bitcoin source files attached, Private email with Hal Finney, 19 November 2008. Original source

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