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title: 'Bitcoin v0.1'
date: 2008-01-08 20:54:55
grand_parent: Emails
parent: Hal Finney
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# Bitcoin v0.1

The email on the Cryptography Mailing List that announced Bitcoin publicly to the world.
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From: Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshi@vistomail.com>
To: hal@finney.org
Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 20:54:55 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Bitcoin v0.1

Thought you’d like to know, the Bitcoin v0.1 release with EXE and full source code is up on Sourceforge;
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/bitcoin/bitcoin-0.1.0.rar

www.bitcoin.org has release notes and screenshots.

Satoshi
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