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title: 'Re: More BitCoin questions'
date: 2011-01-07 13:00
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parent: Mike Hearn
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# Re: More BitCoin questions

The email on the Cryptography Mailing List that announced Bitcoin publicly to the world.
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From: Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
Subject: Re: More BitCoin questions
 
>I reached the same conclusions about client only nodes and this is
>what I've been implementing. I'm nearly there ..... I have block chain
>download, parsing and verification of the blocks/transactions done,
>with creation of spend transactions almost done.
 
That's great!  The first client-only implementation will really start to move things to the next step.  Is it going to be open source, or Google proprietary?
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