THIS DAY IN BITCOIN HISTORY

July 17

9 of Satoshi’s emails and forum posts are dated July 17 (2010), quoted from the original sources.

FROM THE ARCHIVE

What Satoshi wrote on July 17.

Forum posts · 2010Bitcoin 0.3.2 released

Download links available now on bitcoin.org. Everyone should upgrade to this version. - Added a simple security safeguard that locks-in the block chain up to this point. - Reduced addr messages to save bandwidth now t…

Forum posts · 2010Re: Assertion Failure - Ubuntu Lucid

Quote from: singpolyma on July 17, 2010, 10:19:48 PM My coins disappeared, but I assume they'll come back when it's up to current? Right, they'll re-appear when it's finished downloading all the blocks.

Forum posts · 2010Re: Bitcoin 0.3.2 released

Quote from: llama on July 17, 2010, 09:56:25 PM However, it's important that you don't lock all the way up the very latest block. Otherwise, the attacker could generate a fake block (or a few) right before you happen…

Forum posts · 2010Re: Bitcoin snack machine (fast transaction problem)

I believe it'll be possible for a payment processing company to provide as a service the rapid distribution of transactions with good-enough checking in something like 10 seconds or less. The network nodes only accept…

Forum posts · 2010Re: BUG Report: Rounding glitch

It must be a rounding error when getinfo converts to floating point to return the JSON-RPC result. The only place where it uses floating point to represent money is returning a value in JSON-RPC. 1.139999999999 is lon…

Forum posts · 2010Re: Nenolod, the guy that wants to prove Bitcoin doesn't work.

0.3.2 has some security safeguards to lock in the block chain up to this point and limit the damage a little if someone gets 50%. But if someone has 50%+ of the CPU power and malicious intent, they can prove what it a…

Forum posts · 2010Re: Network Size

Quote from: NewLibertyStandard on July 17, 2010, 10:22:09 PM Version 0.3 was supposed to reduce the number of outgoing connections on non-port forwarded clients from 15 to 8, but I don't think it really happened. I'm…

Forum posts · 2010Re: Privacy versus Safety: handling change

We should queue up a supply of pre-made addresses in the wallet to use when a new address is needed. They aren't very big, so it wouldn't hurt to have a lot of them. This would more generally cover the case also where…

Forum posts · 2010Re: Source code documentation

I didn't realize you were going to document all the intentionally undocumented commands. They're unsupported and not intended to be used by users. All the user-facing commands are listed in the -? help.

SATOSHI ON ENCRYPTION
A generation ago, multi-user time-sharing computer systems had a similar problem. Before strong encryption, users had to rely on password protection to secure their files, placing trust in the system administrator to…
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