From 6313157101beb761678e486120f33640405dcae9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wakgill <76528604+wakgill@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 15:20:55 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Create 10.md --- docs/emails/bitcoin-list/10.md | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/emails/bitcoin-list/10.md diff --git a/docs/emails/bitcoin-list/10.md b/docs/emails/bitcoin-list/10.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..878613b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/emails/bitcoin-list/10.md @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +--- +layout: default +title: “[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin v0.1.5 released” +grand_parent: Emails +parent: bitcoin-list +nav_order: 10 +--- + +# Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper + +The email on the Cryptography Mailing List that announced Bitcoin publicly to the world. +{: .fs-6 .fw-300 } + +--- + +``` +Hal Finney wrote: +> That sounds good. I'd also like to be able to run multiple coin/block +> generators on multiple machines, all behind a single NAT address. I +> haven't tried this yet so I don't know if it works on the current +> software. + +The current version will work fine. They'll each connect over the +Internet, while incoming connections only come to the host that +port 8333 is routed to. + +As an optimisation, I'll make a switch "-connect=1.2.3.4" to make +it only connect to a specific address. You could make your extra +nodes connect to your primary, and only the primary connects over +the Internet. It doesn't really matter for now, since the network +would have to get huge before the bandwidth is anything more than +trivial. + + +> BTW I don't remember if we talked about this, but the other day some +> people were mentioning secure timestamping. You want to be able to +> prove that a certain document existed at a certain time in the past. +> Seems to me that bitcoin's stack of blocks would be perfect for this. + +Indeed, Bitcoin is a distributed secure timestamp server for +transactions. A few lines of code could create a transaction with +an extra hash in it of anything that needs to be timestamped. +I should add a command to timestamp a file that way. + + +> > > Later I want to add interfaces to make it really easy to integrate +> > > into websites from any server side language. +> +> Right, and I'd like to see more of a library interface that could be +> called from programming or scripting languages, on the client side as +> well. + +Exactly. + + +Satoshi Nakamoto + +http://www.bitcoin.org +```