diff --git a/docs/emails/dustin-trammel/5.md b/docs/emails/dustin-trammel/5.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee85cde --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/emails/dustin-trammel/5.md @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +--- +layout: default +title: 'Re: A few thoughts...' +date: 2009-01-16 18:42:18 +grand_parent: Emails +parent: Dustin Trammel +nav_order: 5 +--- + +# Re: A few thoughts... + +The email on the Cryptography Mailing List that announced Bitcoin publicly to the world. +{: .fs-6 .fw-300 } + +--- + +``` +From satoshi@vistomail.com Fri Jan 16 18:42:18 2009 +Return-Path: +Delivered-To: dustintrammell-dtrammell@dustintrammell.com +Received: (qmail 2400 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2009 18:42:18 -0000 +Received: from anonymousspeech.com (HELO mail.anonymousspeech.com) + (124.217.253.42) by oaklabs.net with SMTP; 16 Jan 2009 18:42:18 -0000 +Received: from server123 ([124.217.253.42]) by anonymousspeech.com with + MailEnable ESMTP; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:42:14 +0800 +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:41:48 +0800 +X-Mailer: Chilkat Software Inc (http://www.chilkatsoft.com) +X-Priority: 3 (Normal) +Subject: Re: A few thoughts... +Content-Type: text/plain +From: "Satoshi Nakamoto" +Reply-To: satoshi@vistomail.com +To: dtrammell@dustintrammell.com +Message-ID: +X-Evolution-Source: pop://dustintrammell-dtrammell@mail.oaklabs.net/ +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit + +> One thing that came to mind on this topic is the potential for BitCoin +> loss if you have a system failure. The application doesn't seem to +> store any data in the directory that it runs in, so I assume it's stored +> in the registry and other places (haven't cracked out ProcessExplorer +> yet to check myself), so it may be a good idea to have the application +> be able to export everything that it needs for recovery to a file that +> could be backed up off of the system. + +The files are in "%appdata%\Bitcoin", that's the directory to +backup. The data is stored in a transactional database DBM, so +it should be safe from loss if there's a crash or power failure. + +%appdata% is per-user access privilege. Most new programs like +Firefox store their settings files there, despite the headwind of +Microsoft changing the directory name with every Windows release +and being full of spaces and so long it runs off the screen. + +> One other thing I noticed today is that if you close the application it +> doesn't appear to cleanly close it's network sockets (TCP RST's start +> flying). Probably an item for the low-priority todo list (: + +Just now added code to the next release for that. + +Satoshi +```