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