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+title: 'Re: Bitcoin v0.1 released'
+date: 2009-01-25 16:03:21
+grand_parent: Emails
+parent: Dustin Trammel
+nav_order: 9
+---
+
+# Re: Bitcoin v0.1 released
+
+The email on the Cryptography Mailing List that announced Bitcoin publicly to the world.
+{: .fs-6 .fw-300 } 
+
+---
+
+```
+From satoshi@vistomail.com Sun Jan 25 16:03:21 2009
+Return-Path: <satoshi@vistomail.com>
+Delivered-To: dustintrammell-dtrammell@dustintrammell.com
+Received: (qmail 11309 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2009 16:03:21 -0000
+Received: from anonymousspeech.com (HELO mail.anonymousspeech.com)
+ (124.217.253.42) by oaklabs.net with SMTP; 25 Jan 2009 16:03:21 -0000
+Received: from server123 ([124.217.253.42]) by anonymousspeech.com with
+ MailEnable ESMTP; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:03:11 +0800
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:47:10 +0800
+X-Mailer: Chilkat Software Inc (http://www.chilkatsoft.com)
+X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
+Subject: Re: Bitcoin v0.1 released
+Content-Type: text/plain
+From: "Satoshi Nakamoto" <satoshi@vistomail.com>
+Reply-To: satoshi@vistomail.com
+To: dtrammell@dustintrammell.com
+Message-ID: <CHILKAT-MID-e622b093-c26b-ab6c-9b35-00003814eb59@server123>
+X-Evolution-Source: pop://dustintrammell-dtrammell@mail.oaklabs.net/
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Hal Finney wrote:
+> > * Spammer botnets could burn through pay-per-send email filters
+> >   trivially
+> If POW tokens do become useful, and especially if they become money,
+> machines will no longer sit idle. Users will expect their computers to
+> be earning them money (assuming the reward is greater than the cost to
+> operate). A computer whose earnings are being stolen by a botnet will
+> be more noticeable to its owner than is the case today, hence we might
+> expect that in that world, users will work harder to maintain their
+> computers and clean them of botnet infestations.
+
+Another factor that would mitigate spam if POW tokens have value:
+there would be a profit motive for people to set up massive
+quantities of fake e-mail accounts to harvest POW tokens from
+spam.  They'd essentially be reverse-spamming the spammers with
+automated mailboxes that collect their POW and don't read the
+message.  The ratio of fake mailboxes to real people could become
+too high for spam to be cost effective. 
+
+The process has the potential to establish the POW token's value
+in the first place, since spammers that don't have a botnet could
+buy tokens from harvesters.  While the buying back would
+temporarily let more spam through, it would only hasten the
+self-defeating cycle leading to too many harvesters exploiting the
+spammers.
+
+Interestingly, one of the e-gold systems already has a form of
+spam called "dusting".  Spammers send a tiny amount of gold dust
+in order to put a spam message in the transaction's comment field.
+ If the system let users configure the minimum payment they're
+willing to receive, or at least the minimum that can have a
+message with it, users could set how much they're willing to get
+paid to receive spam.
+
+Satoshi Nakamoto
+```